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3.4.vi.1 “Queer” Tweeted Sites

Manhattan

● Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (ambiguous) - Launching inQ an inQubator for Queer thought (144 W 65th St)

● New York Public Library (2) - Queer books to check out, Queer “Histories of Brooklyn’s Working Waterfront “Lecture by author (476 5th Ave)

● Trump Tower Protest, February 26 - queer/black lives matter (725 5th Ave) ● Women’s March, January 21

● Japan Society - exhibition on third gender and queer culture in japanese art - (333 E 47th St) ● Gay Men’s Health Crisis - Queer Resistance Valentine's Day dinner (446 West 33rd Street) ● Dancing Classroom Academy - Queer Tango classes (25 W 31st St)

● Cinepolis Theater - “Moonlight” film black and queer (260 W 23rd St) ● New York Fine Arts - keynote panel on “Queercore” (219 W 19th Street)

● 13th Street Repertory Theater - Poetry/ performance for Ali Forney Center and Trevor Project (50 W 13th St)

● Washington Square Park - International Women’s Day March 8

● The Lynn Redgrave Theater - “The View Upstairs” Queer POC film (45 Bleecker St) ● International Center of Photography Museum - “Queer Icons” Exhibit (250 Bowery)

● Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art - “world’s first museum of queer art” (26 Wooster St)

● Leslie-Lohman Prince Street Project Space - POC, queer art (B, 127 Prince St) ● Battery Park - pro-immigration protest, January 29

● Stonewall/ Christopher Park/ LGBTQ Solidarity Rally, February 4 (4) (53 Christopher St) ● Manhattan Monster Bar - LGBTQ Dance Party

Brooklyn

● Lesbian Herstory Archives - Queer-Lady-Types Book Club visit (484 14th St)

● Branded Saloon - Queer Country Quarterly bands played: Karen and the Sorrows, Julie Cira, Girls on Grass, Do it! (603 Vanderbilt Ave)

106 ● Brooklyn Bazaar - “‘The Arcade’ queer consensual techno dance liberation fundraiser” (150

Greenpoint Ave)

● The Knitting Factory - Queer band (361 Metropolitan Ave)

● MOMA PS1 - Queer director’s film screening (22-25 Jackson Ave)

3.4.vii. “Lesbian” Search Results

The “lesbian” site tweet search did not turn out many results and most of the results only use lesbian in the name of the site or organization that they are talking about, such as the Lesbian Herstory Archives, institutions, committees and clubs. This is in contrast to the “queer” and even “gay” search results in which is is clear that the terms “queer” and “gay” are being used more than”lesbian” in relation to identity. It is interesting comparing these results to the “queer” LGBTQ category search results because it suggests that the term lesbian is a term that used less as a self identifier for people who are tweeting about sites, and more of an institutionalized term for these organizations.

Further, there are many queer tweet results that were submitted by people who are assumed to be women. These results could be indicative that those who might have identified as lesbians in the past, are now identifying as queer women or gender queer. Lesbian is traditionally more firmly rooted in the gender binary whereas queer tries to break free of this binary. Older and even all generation members of the LGBT community could see the term queer as very negative87 since it has a history of being used derogatively,88 _{and/or that they simply do not identify with the more “gender-fluid” terms.}89 _The

generational differences thus can become a point of misunderstanding and difference between generations and it is important for historic preservationists assessing a heritage sites’ constituencies to locate and understand these nuances.

This is not saying that the term lesbian might be becoming obsolete, it is just that it is a very specific gender and sexual identity that might be limiting to a younger generation that is tweeting, searching out safe-spaces that they can be themselves, without trying to fit into a very specific category with a fixed and specific gender and sexuality assigned to it.

87 _{Peron, James. “Not Queer, Just Gay. No, Thanks.” Huffington Post, February 3, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.} 88 _{Stryker, Susan. Transgender History. Seal Press, 2008. 20.}

89 _{Marsh, Sarah. “The Gender-Fluid Generation: Young People on Being Male, Female or Non-Binary.” The Guardian, March}

107 Also, there were two people tweeting about the Women’s March using the word lesbian. In one of these they were talking about the Lesbian and Gay Big Apple Corps.

The Lesbian Herstory Archives came up as a lesbian category tweeted site because the search found the name of the Archive, but it also came up as a queer site tweet because in the body of the tweet however, the people in the tweet who are visiting the archive are identifying personally as queer.

This is interesting because it shows that Twitter can be a tool that allows sites like the Lesbian Herstory Archives to be more knowledgeable and thus more receptive of who their current constituency are currently and who their possible constituency could be. These current and potential users of this archive as well as might feel more welcome to this the archive broadcast itself as being more queer friendly. Other such organizations that only cater to Lesbian and or Gay identities who want to stay popular, relevant and beneficial to the LGBTQ community could use this Twitter information to inform their scope and outreach. This could mean the LGBT Community Center and other community centers around New York City adding a “Q.” This might be true especially for the Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee Queens as well as the Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art (tweeted as queer) to think about including Bisexuals, Queers and Transgender into their names. Names change, marginalized constituencies around these organizations change and the organizations tied to place, especially historic places need to be conscientious of this if they want to stay relevant and not exclude other gender and sexuality identities. These sites were often revolutionary and radical for LGBTQ history, and they should stay that way.

Also the Lesbian Herstory Archives and other organizations might benefit from including such archival practices such as mining Twitter data if they see that this is a viable tool.

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