In its new issue, the quarterly Art Journal features an 80-page forum, Conversations on Queer Affect and Queer Archives. The forum, will include works of art, conversations, and explorations by artists, art historians, curators, and other scholars.

The forum documents the preservation of the material effects of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in archives as diverse as the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in Los Angeles, the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, NYU’s Fales Library and Special Collections, and the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, among many other archives.

The issue includes a list of 37 archives worldwide, with detailed contract information. It also explores the innovative ways in which artists, curators, and scholars are drawing on and showcasing these legacy materials.