Eden Court and High Life Highland in Inverness work together to close the queer history gaps
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Two Highland organisations have been awarded funding, as part of Scotland’s Year of Stories, for an exciting new project and they are looking for your help.
Eden Court Highlands and High Life Highland’s Highland Archive Service have been given the funding from VisitScotland, the National Heritage Lottery Fund, and Museums Galleries Scotland.
The project – Our Story: Closing the queer history gap in the Highlands – is an intergenerational legacy project which seeks to gather and permanently archive stories of the LGBTQ+ community in the region.
Four drop-in sessions will take place in August and September where members of the LGBTQ+ community are invited to drop-in, contribute to a creative artwork, record their thoughts and stories, and help to shape a zine and an exhibition which will tour through the Highlands later in the year.
The Inverness drop-in session will take place at Highland Archive Centre in Bught Road on September 16 between 11am and 3pm.
Lucy McGlennon, Eden Court’s head of engagement said: “We are delighted to be a partner in this project and hope it will help inform future generations of the diversity that exists in the Highlands.
"We’d really love people to get involved and assist us in increasing the diverse materials and information held in the Highland Archive Service’s collections and to ensure that the stories of LGBTQ+ people in the Highlands are recorded and recognised when people look back in years to come.”
Lorna Steele-McGinn, High Life Highland’s community engagement officer, said, “We are really looking for anyone who views themselves as part of the LGBTQ+ community in the Highlands to get in touch.
"Even if they are not able to come along to these sessions but want their stories to be included in the project, or have anything to add to the archive being collected, then they should feel free to contact us through our social media pages or by email on archives@highlifehighland.com. We’d be delighted to hear from them.”
