Fight Back. Save History.

This year for Give Out Day, Invisible Histories is raising money to ensure that Deep South LGBTQ history lives on for generations to come. Funds from 2024 Give Out Day will be used for our Queer History Field Kit project; training leaders and organizations on how to learn from and collect their own histories; and saving at-risk collections across Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and the Florida Panhandle. 

Invisible Histories locates, collects, researches, and creates community-based, educational programming around LGBTQ history in the Deep South. Invisible Histories believes archiving is resistance to oppression and history leads to liberation. In our work, we center joy and community while never erasing the painful and complicated experiences of our folks. We WILL save our stories, one box at a time.

Invisible Histories focuses on four key elements related to advancing LGBTQ Southern History:

1. Community Engagement
2. Archiving, Preservation, Research & Scholarship
3. Education
4. Professional Development & Best Practices

Invisible Histories acts as an intermediary between institutions, organizations, and everyday folks. We strive to break barriers between organizations and their local communities to ensure that preservation and research exist in a co-productive and relationship centered way. In addition to direct collection and preservation, Invisible Histories is invested in providing scholars with direct access to materials as well as creating a network of people conducting LGBTQ Southern archiving, preservation, education and research to make scholarship more accessible. We focus on providing education around the Queer South to those within and outside the region through speaking, exhibiting, online materials, and publications. Finally, Invisible Histories seeks to help develop a new generation of scholars working in the Queer South as well as work alongside other professionals in the field to develop best practices for this work.