"The Archivettes" Documentary Screening and Discussion

Come connect with Portland's Dyke Community and explore Dyke History with a documentary screening and discussion led by Megan MacGregor, librarian with the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine. 

In association with Dyke March Maine.

About the film:

“Our history was disappearing as quickly as we were making it.”

With that realization, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the world’s largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. For more than 40 years, through many of the major milestones in LGBTQ+ history, the all-volunteer organization has literally rescued history from the trash. Now the co-founders are in their mid-70s, and the group faces a number of challenges: A transfer of leadership. The rise of digital technology. A renewed call to activism in a politically charged moment.  

The Archivettes is a documentary film that explores how this group came together to combat lesbian invisibility and create “a place that says yes.”