Oral History: Deborah Edel

Organization: Lesbian Herstory Archives, P.O. Box 1258, Brooklyn, NY 10116

Date of Interview:1996

Deborah Edel, along with Joan Nestle, founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives in 1973. They began with a newsletter and a consciousness-raising group that came out of a Gay Academic Union Conference. The Archive was created Edel says, "to collect and preserve our own voices, the voices of the Lesbian community": all expressions our identity, written, spoken, drawn, filmed, photographed and recorded (interview is part of an organization profile).

Interviewer: Bryna Diamond, a doctoral candidate in the MALS Program at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

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