Rutgers University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of the Queer Newark Oral History Project (QNOHP). QNOHP is a community-based and community-directed interdisciplinary initiative supported by Rutgers University–Newark. Queer Newark interviews LGBTQ and gender non-conforming people in Newark. We collect, catalog, and transcribe these oral histories to make their stories accessible to everyone, including researchers, students, and artists. Queer Newark also digitizes and preserves papers and artifacts about Newark’s LGBTQ history at Rutgers–Newark. Please visit this link to browse this collection.
Work on the project took place over the spring and summer of 2022 in a collaboration between staff at Dana Library and the Libraries’ Central Applications and Development Team. QNOHP involved a partnership with the Department of History at Rutgers–Newark and received a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission to complete the work of transcribing and editing recorded oral histories. At their outset, the QNOHP and Newark Black Newspapers Collection projects were supported greatly by work performed by the late Krista White, digital scholarship and pedagogies librarian at Dana Library.
