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LGBT Culture: The Todd And Bratt Collection

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In addition, Social history can also examine the development of the LGBT community. As with any marginalized group, the LGBT community created itself. The need for strong bonds and relationships in order to fight for equal rights and recognition produced the unique blend of people present in the current LGBT movement. This movement can also be looked at as a subculture because it is not only a political movement but an entire community of uniquely marginalized people. The Todd and Bratt Collection holds sources which show the process of this culture building. For example, the scrapbooks contain pages from local Kansas City publication, Current News. Full page flyers from the publication simultaneously praise a previous year’s GALA Picnic while …show more content…

The researcher can examine newspaper clippings for changes in LGBT portrayal in mass media, including the amount of representation, the kinds of representation, and reactions to LGBT topics. However, these sources also allow the researcher to look at social aspects of LGBT life across the globe. These clippings offer a thorough representation of LGBT events. The sources range from articles on Russian homophobia from Kansas City newspapers to LGBT wedding announcements from the New York Times. For example, one clipping from the Kansas City Star, reports on homophobia and racism in Russian sports. This more recent sources shows how Russia is regressing in regard to LGBT rights while the U.S. is progressing. This source, and others like it, make it possible to compare successes and failures by the LGBT movement worldwide and reactions to …show more content…

The Todd and Bratt Collection contains a wide and varied selection of sources related to the fight for understand of aids and the search for a cure. Series’ I, III, V, and VI, contain correspondence, scrapbooks, publications, and newspaper clippings, discussing HIV and AIDS. A New Left approach could look at the politics and larger picture behind the discovery of aids and the resources, or lack thereof, dedicated to its research. A Social history approach could look at the ideas about HIV/AIDS coming from both the LGBT community and non-LGBT Americans. For example, one scrapbook contains a newspaper clipping from 1988 which discusses a controversial federal study to “estimate the number of people affected by” AIDS whose results will be used to “formulate a national policy” on HIV/AIDS. However, the study would not reveal HIV test results to patients. Finally, a Social approach could look at grassroots responses to HIV/AIDS such as the formation and activities of ACT UP, a movement aimed at AIDS awareness and research promotion. For example, this organization recruited local citizens to protest pharmaceutical companies in response to a lack of AIDS research. HIV/AIDS is a rich subject for social and political LGBT historical research and the Todd and Bratt Collection has a lot of it. It would make a really good

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