“The ability to see yourself in the past is essential to forming a sense of belonging in the world.” Archie Barry wrote in 2018. “It seems now I’ve naturally fallen into a role that many queer and gender diverse people fall into: that of informal researcher. We silently horde content – URLs, zines, ads, pamphlets, stickers, mp3s, books, posters – to build a personalised buffer, a kind of archive armour, between the self and the ¬cis-hetero world.”

Join Library staff on a tour through queer and trans archives and research databases and projects. They will introduce you to some of their favourite archives, objects, and more collections, and get you started on your own quests back through your communities’ histories to find queer and trans solidarity, hope, and joy.