| PW-269420-20 | Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | University Of Houston | Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization and Access Project | 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2024 | $348,751.00 | Emily | | Vinson | | | | University Of Houston | Houston | TX | 77204-3067 | USA | 2020 | History, Other | Humanities Collections and Reference Resources | Preservation and Access | 348751 | 0 | 333251 | 0 | The digitization of nearly 6,000 hours of radio
and television programs documenting the Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community in Houston from the
mid-1970s to the 2000s.
The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and
Television Digitization and Access Project proposes to digitize, transcribe,
describe, and make available over thirty years of unique radio and television
broadcast recordings created by and for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans
communities. Drawing from UH Special Collections, and through a partnership
with the Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and
Transgender History, Inc., four series have been identified for inclusion in
this project, totaling thousands of hours of content not heard or seen since
initial broadcast. Currently, these materials are inaccessible to researchers,
and due to the fragile audiovisual formats, are at significant risk of loss due
to deterioration. These recordings are primary documents chronicling the
experience of the LGBT community in a major Southern city and stand as a
testament to the role of radio and television broadcast in the LGBT movement’s
pursuit for social acceptance and political equality. |