Dr. Gregory Rosenthal has written an essay for WUSSY, an online magazine of queer + Southern arts, politics, and culture, about the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project’s work on the Roanoke LGBT Memorial Library. Check it out! Gregory Rosenthal, “Who Needs Gay Books?” WUSSY, August 2, 2017.

The research of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project was featured in a recent article in Munchies—a project of Vice—about the decline of queer spaces in Roanoke, Virginia. Check it out: Mason Adams, “Roanoke’s Gay Bar Scene Will Never Be the Same,” Munchies (online magazine), June 27, 2017.

In spring 2017, three seniors at Washington & Lee University produced the multimedia documentary “Transmural: A Queer Space in Rural Virginia,” which features text and videos about transgender history and contemporary transgender experiences in Roanoke, Virginia. The students interviewed Dr. Gregory Rosenthal and consulted the research of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project for their project. Isidro Camacho, Jordan…

Dr. Gregory Rosenthal visited Washington & Lee University as a guest on the hour-long radio show Equal Time hosted by Andrea Hilton. They discussed the ongoing work of the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project. Andrea Hilton interviewing Gregory Rosenthal, “Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project,” Equal Time, radio program on WLUR 91.5 FM, April 27, 2017.

Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project volunteer and Roanoke College alum Rachel Barton has written a fabulous essay, accompanied by an interactive version of our downtown walking tour, reflecting on Roanoke’s queer history and the effects of gentrification on the erasure of queer spaces. This was published in NOTCHES, the leading peer-reviewed academic blog on the history of sexuality. Rachel Barton, “Walking Tour: Gentrification and Queer Erasure…

Reporter Sara Machi of WDBJ7 stopped by the Roanoke Diversity Center to interview some of our LGBTQ+ History Project volunteers who have been working on the preservation and digitization of the Roanoke LGBT Memorial Library, a 2,700-volume collection that has been slowly growing since the late 1990s. Sara Machi, “Volunteers working to make LGBTQ library more accessible…

History@Work, the official blog of the National Council on Public History, has featured a series of essays this spring responding to Dr. Gregory Rosenthal’s article “Make Roanoke Queer Again,” which discussed the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project and was published in The Public Historian in February 2017. Here are the responses: David C. White, “Make Queerness…

Sara Machi from WDBJ7 attended our Historical Marker forum at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke on March 22, 2017. This event was the kick-off for a campaign to research and apply for an official state historical marker on the site of The Trade Winds, the oldest known gay bar in Southwest Virginia. Sara Machi, “Virginia may be getting…

Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project co-founder Dr. Gregory Rosenthal has written an academic article about the History Project, discussing the intersections of queer history and urban history in Roanoke. It has been published in the nation’s leading public history journal, The Public Historian. Check it out! Gregory Rosenthal, “Make Roanoke Queer Again: Community History and Urban Change in…

Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project co-founder Dr. Gregory Rosenthal wrote an essay about queer history and gentrification in Roanoke for the official blog of the National Council on Public History. Check it out! Gregory Rosenthal, “Reclaiming Queer Historical Space,” History@Work (blog), February 2, 2017.