More than 20 years ago, when OurStory Scotland set out to record our stories, we received invaluable advice and support from Rob Perks of Oral History Society as recalled in this memory for their 50th anniversary. ohs.org.uk/ohs50/who-is-c…

Jimmy Donnelly has given OurStory Scotland a wonderful oral history interview for archive Archives & MSS At a time when his sexuality was regarded as crime, illness & sin, he found support through Glasgow venues, Quest and 50 precious years with James Morrow the love of his life.

Transgressions -our workshop on breaking rules, up ending the status quo and being an uppity queer babe, will be introducing material used in a new podcast celebrating gender expression…with a special guest storyteller 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ National Library of Scotland on the 7th of June eventbrite.co.uk/e/lgbt-storyte…

First Pride Month event complete, National Library of Scotland put on a lovely spread for us - the cakes weren’t bad either

Today we’re celebrating #worldrefugeeday with collecting and preserving stories of LGBTQI+ refugees in Scotland. We are delivering a group oral history workshop, with the recording going to National Library of Scotland Part of the Refugee Festival Scotland official programme. Save our #archives

This is a great project by V&A Dundee integrating the stories of objects with more personal accounts evoked by the exhibits, thereby illuminating disregarded LGBTQ+ histories. app.smartify.org/en-GB/tours/la…

Had such a braw day! Always lovely to see Sigrid Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive & Blog and fab to meet Dr Suzanne Black Thanks for having me Porty Pride 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Last month we partnered with Scottish Refugee Council 🧡 & OurStory Scotland to put on the Preserving Stories of LGBTQ+ Refugees in Scotland for future generations event. Read Chris Afuakwah's reflection on the wonderful event here: scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/reflect…

Yesterday we had the pleasure of interviewing Scotland’s first out non-binary councillor, @grogipher

Listen to this wonderful queer discussion of music EHFM compiled from oral history interviews recorded at Kafe Kweer. mixcloud.com/ehfm/faye-1908…

On the OurStory Scotland podcast there is a brilliant new episode compiled from oral history recordings by Amanda with members of SheBoom, the Glasgow-based women’s drumming band and collective. open.spotify.com/episode/5WxLuW…

The latest OurStory Scotland oral history recordings of SheBoom participants and of queer music, along with their compilations for radio/podcast, will be archived National Library of Scotland in the OurStory Scotland Collection Archives & MSS

Excellent podcast-of-passion from our Secretary, Amanda, she’s worked so hard on this! What a wonderful way to celebrate SheBoom by hearing what it means to the drummers themselves 🥁 open.spotify.com/episode/5WxLuW…

Great to see Shaper/Caper’s Queer and Now exhibition in full swing! We trained the artists and asked them to add to our archive, great to see what can be done with oral history interviews WASPS Artist Studio Glasgow 1-13th with some artists giving a talk on the 11th

We've been continuing our project with the Glasgow Sunflowers baseball team: ➡️ OurStory Scotland creating archive responses through the medium of baseball gear! ⚾ ➡️ Glasgow Women's Library - follow us on Bluesky touring their collections and exploring LGBT+ and sports material. 📚 Historic Environment Scotland #KSBHeritage

Very excited to have a story in this anthology! I had so much fun writing it, especially with all the advice and support I got from my absolutely wonderful mentor Heather Parry . Thank you @HRFMichael, @ryanjjvance, and 404 Ink for such a brilliant opportunity!!

We are only a week away from the Queer Heritage and Collections Symposium 2024! 🌈 There is still time to register online: eventbrite.com/e/queer-herita… The digital programme can now be accessed on our website! We look forward to seeing you there! #QHCN2024 queerhcn.org/symposiums/sym…

Queer & Now has been touring Scotland in tandem with Small Town Boys, and makes its final stop of the tour from tomorrow until Sunday! You can catch this free exhibition 10am-5pm everyday at The Anatomy Rooms on Shoe Lane!

Today the incredible Ally Van Tilo donated his story to our archive, he was a trailblazer in early HIV fundraising, the NAMES project aka the UK AIDS Quilts and owned and ran the bar Key West

This is wonderful to read!