Preserving queer voices

This chapter is an exploration of work carried out to preserve and make available LGBTQI+ oral history testimonies. It describes community engagement work to archive the ‘Queer in Brighton’ collection with long-term digital preservation in mind and explores the development of ‘Queer Codebreakers’ - an interactive installation that uses a low-tech solution to make accessible and visible queer heritage and histories. In particular, if focuses on queer archiving and community curation in museum spaces as forms archival and curatorial activism and takes seriously the need to involve communities in archiving and curation processes.