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Arizona Queer Archives

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queer & trans
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Fiscal Host: The BCC Tucson

The Arizona Queer Archives (AQA) is Arizona’s first LGBTQI collecting archives and a hands-on archival learning space.

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Events

Arizona Queer Archives is hosting the following events.

Past event
AQA Annotated ~ storytelling through craft
12:30 AM-01:30 AM UTC
AQA Annotated is our monthly conversation series to get to the nitty gritty of all things archivi...Read more
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AQA Q1 Workshop ~ Building Your Archival Collections
02:30 PM-03:30 PM UTC
Jamie Lee from the AQA will facilitate a workshop with community folks on building your own archi...Read more
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AQA's HomeWarming & Launch Celebration!
12:00 AM-02:00 AM UTC
Celebrate our new and first home in community!
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AQA's Virtual Happy Hour in collaboration with the SAA Archival Educators Group
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11:00 PM UTC
Gather in zoom to talk queer archiving and community archives with Ana, AQA Board Member.
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October's OPEN HOURS ~ Love Letters v.2
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10:00 PM UTC
Bring in your love letters, photos, and artifacts to share with AQA archivists.

Arizona Queer Archives is all of us

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Thank you for supporting Arizona Queer Archives.

Jamie Lee

Admin

R. Waters

Admin

Cynthia A. Ga...

$871 USD

Brian Dodge

Supporter

$850 USD

Tucson Electr...

$500 USD

Guest

$500 USD

Caroline

$450 USD

Ana Roeschley

$365 USD

Heather Martel

Community Archivist Member

$300 USD

Tucson Hop Shop

$250 USD

Tucson Zine Fest

$250 USD

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backer

$200 USD

Deborah

Supporting Member

$120 USD

Roshan Antia

Supporting Member

$110 USD

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News from Arizona Queer Archives

Updates on our activities and progress.

AQA Annotated ~ happening each month!

Greetings! We kicked off AQA Annotated last month around archiving lesbian lives with guests from the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, NY; Mazer Lesbian Archives in North Hollywood, CA; and the Southwest Femi...
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Published on April 23, 2026 by Jamie Lee

Join the AQA community in October!

October is both National Archives Month and LGBTQ+ History Month! To acknowledge these two parts of history coming together, the AQA is celebrating! Please plan to join us at one of our events!...
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Published on September 9, 2025 by Jamie Lee

About

The Arizona Queer Archives (AQA) is Arizona’s first LGBTQI collecting archives and a hands-on archival learning space. As a community-focused archives, the AQA uses and pulls queer — as theory and practice — into the way we go about collecting, preserving, and making our collections accessible and to develop an archives that is for, by, and about us. We want an archives that is flexible and playful and one that is a living and breathing story of our lives. 

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Jamie Lee

Admin

R. Waters

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