After Trump’s implementation of executive orders against DEI and LGBTQ+, there has been a removal of information on the topics across the internet, posing a danger to both LGBTQ individual’s safety, as well as the preservation of their history. To restore the loss of information, LGBTQ+ Tech created an archive where thousands of important LGBTQ documents have been restored.
Specialist K.J Rawson, Northeastern professor of English and WGSS and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, reinforces the importance of archives as “information activism” which protects LGBTQ communities by fighting against the powers that attempt to skew their history. With freely accessible pdfs of each restored document, the archive serves to uphold its mission in protecting LGBTQ communities under Trump’s administration.
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