Featuring Shannon O’Neill and Bettina Aptheker
O’Neill, Curator for the Tamiment-Wagner Collections at NYU Special Collections and ex-officio ALBA board member re-acquainted us with the ALBA archives and highlighted the importance of telling the stories of LGBTQ Volunteers and the challenges involved.
Aptheker discussed her book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s-1990s. Drawing on the ALBA collection, among other archives, the book recounts the struggles of the Party to come to grips with the many LGBTQ folks among its rank-and-file.