MINNESOTA QUEER STUDENT CONFERENCE:
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
Creator: | Minnesota Queer Student Conference, creator. | |
Title: | Conference records. | |
Dates: | 1994. | |
Abstract: | Audio-taped proceedings and other records of the Minnesota Queer Student Conference, held on the campus of the University of Minnesota in May of 1994. | |
Quantity: | 0.2 cubic feet (1 box), 1 master audio file: WAV (776 MB), and 1 user audio file: MP3 (152 MB). | |
Location: | P2393 |
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Agenda, audio recorded proceedings, and other materials, including a directory of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender organizations on Minnesota college campuses, of the Minnesota Queer Student Conference, held on the campus of the University of Minnesota in May of 1994. Speakers included Joe Hoover and Beth Zemsky.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here] Minnesota Queer Student Conference Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples
Accession Information:
Accession number: 15,560
Location of Master File:
Digital master of audiocassettes is maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and is managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original audiocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into a wav file.
Processing Information:
Processed by: Lara D. Friedman-Shedlov, March 2000
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, May 16, 2023, and Aubrey Mullenix, March 2025.
Digital audio transferred from the master audiocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes May 2023).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 990017362650104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Box | |||||||||||
P2393 | 1 | Conference agenda, handouts, and notes, 1994. | |||||||||
Notes were taken by Joe Hoover. | |||||||||||
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Minnesota Queer Student Directory, 1994-1995. | |||||||||||
Directory of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student organizations on college campuses around the state of Minnesota. Directory includes name and contact information for each organization. Additional information on some organizations includes constitutions, charters, copies of newspaper articles, and other material giving background on the group. | |||||||||||
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Internet | Conference audio tapes, 1994. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 33 minutes): WAV (776 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (152 MB). | ||||||||||
Recording of the morning program of the conference, including welcome by Joe Hoover; reports given by representatives from college GLBT groups across Minnesota and UW-Madison on attitudes towards GLBT individuals and groups on their campus and activities and goals of their group; and a workshop given by Beth Zemsky, head of the University of Minnesota's GLBT Program Office on community organizing and coalition building. | |||||||||||
Note: difficult to hear audience questions without a microphone. At 0:45:00-0:47:08, recording switches to an unrelated topic before switching back to Joe Hoover. | |||||||||||
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RELATED MATERIALS
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Gay college students -- Minnesota -- Societies, etc.
- Lesbian college students -- Minnesota -- Societies, etc.
- Bisexuals -- Minnesota.
- Gay liberation movement -- Minnesota.
- Persons:
- Hoover, Joe, author.
- Zemsky, Beth, author.
- Document Types:
- Sound recordings.