Check out our most recent achievement regarding our digital preservation project: https://www.roanoke.edu/about/news/blue_ridge_lambda_press

Check out this news story about the impact of the History Project on local queer history in honor of Women’s History Month! https://www.wdbj7.com/2023/03/22/roanokes-lgbtq-womens-history-being-documented-shared-thanks-history-project/

Check out this article that features Roanoke’s queer history: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/12/04/backstreet-cafe-roanoke-lgbtq-elections/

Check out this recent article about the Roanoke Diversity Center: https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/03/roanoke-can-turn-to-lgbtq-community-center-for-queer-literature/

For LGBTQ+ History Month, project member Dr. Samantha Rosenthal has published an essay in Southern Spaces about living with queer history in the spaces of our lives. Check it out at the link below! Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, “Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts,” Southern Spaces, October 28, 2021.

The Roanoker magazine interviewed Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project research assistant (and current Roanoke College sophomore) Megan Reynolds about her work on our new online exhibition, “BLT: Bisexual, Lesbian, and Transgender Inclusion and Exclusion in Southwest Virginia, 1990-1995.” Check it out: Aila Boyd, “Exhibit on Local Bisexual, Lesbian, Transgender Life in ’90s Debuts,” The Roanoker, January 20,…

Back in June, the Roanoke Cultural Endowment published this piece about the LGBTQ+ arts scene in Roanoke and the role of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project in that work. Check it out: “Arts & Culture Provides LGBTQ+ Roanokers with a Safe Space for Self-Expression,” Roanoke Cultural Endowment, June 22, 2020.

The national queer women’s magazine GO Magazine ran a recent profile on Roanoke’s queer women’s scene, with ample quotes from Dr. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project about the city’s LGBTQ history. Check it out: Isabelle Lichtenstein, “Roanoke is Full of Queer Women—But Also a Deep History of Erasure,” GO Magazine, August 12, 2020.

Tatiana Durant, President of No Justice No Peace – Roanoke, and Dr. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, co-wrote an essay on the importance of anti-racism and anti-white supremacy work within the LGBTQ movement. Check it out: Tatiana Durant and Gregory Samantha Rosenthal, “The LGBTQ Movement Has a White Supremacy Problem,” WUSSY,…

On July 7, 2020, Roanoke’s local FOX news station, WFXR, ran a story on our new ‘Before West Station’ walking tour. Living Local producers interviewed Dr. Gregory Samantha Rosenthal about the tour and why it is important. Check it out: “Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project,” WFXR (FOX), July 7, 2020.