José Arroyo in conversation with Ross Higgins on the Archives Gaies du Québec

An inspiring talk with Ross Higgins on the foundation of the Archives gaies du Québec. How did the archive came to be? Why did it come to be? What social and historical contexts shaped it? How did it develop from materials stored and used in his flat to an archive of national and international importance? Ross, who along with Jacques Prince, founded the archive, offers various histories and contexts, from changes in the law, to changing concepts of sexual and social identities, that informed how the archive developed and how it came to be what it now is, taking into account particularities of place but always conscious of larger forces and the interplay between them. A talk anyone interested in histories of sexualities, communities and the place of the archive in all of that, will find fascinating.