{"id":1386,"date":"2014-10-30T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2014-10-30T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T17:58:19","slug":"manchester-library-unveils-public-lgbt-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1386","title":{"rendered":"Manchester library unveils public LGBT archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Manchester Libraries have teamed with the Lesbian and Gay Foundation to make the Foundation&#8217;s holdings more publicly accessible. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/10\/27\/manchester-library-unveils-public-gay-history-archive\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The LGF\u2019s history collection \u2013 made available at Central Library in Manchester \u2013 includes a comprehensive catalogues of LGB magazines, including Mancunian Gay, Outnorthwest, Gay Times, Diva, and several grassroots publications.<\/p>\n<p>The collection, housed in the Libraries Archives+ Centre, also includes several historic documents about early Pride celebrations, Manchester\u2019s gay movement, and literature from the AIDS crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Williams of the LGF said: \u201cWe are delighted to be working with Manchester Central Library to make our archives accessible to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese archives contain valuable records of the development of LGBT rights and changing attitudes in society, and now the people of Manchester will be able to discover and celebrate the history of the North West\u2019s LGBT communities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The Manchester Libraries have teamed with the Lesbian and Gay Foundation to make the Foundation&#8217;s holdings more publicly accessible. Via PinkNews: The LGF\u2019s history collection \u2013 made available at Central Library in Manchester \u2013 includes a comprehensive catalogues of LGB magazines, including Mancunian Gay, Outnorthwest, Gay Times, Diva, and several grassroots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}