PLEXUS#10. ICA Declaration on LGBTQ+ Archives and Archivists
After the Presidency statement on LGBTQ+ archives in June 28th, 2024, and the webinar to present the Working Group just one day before, the International Council on Archives (ICA) has taken a third step in the path of recognizing and valuing the archives of the sex-affective and gender diversity (SAGD) archives and the archival professionals who identified as SAGD people. Last October, 30th, the institution presented the Declaration on LGBTQ+ Archives and Archivists at the ICA Congress in Barcelona. The presentation concludes a consultation and text drafting process that has been ongoing for the past few months. The initial idea was conceived by Carlos Serrano Vásquez, ICA Secretary, as a way to put on value the work made by LGBTQ+ archives in the last decades, to normalize and visiblize the existence of LGBTQ+ community archives, as well as a call to institutional archives to look the collections they kept and the profession through a queer lens. This Declarati...