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LGBT Religious Archives Network
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LGBTQ+ Religious Archives Network
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The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network (LGBT-RAN) is an innovative venture in preserving history and encouraging scholarly study of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender (LGBT) religious movements around the world. LGBTQ-RAN has a two-fold basic purpose.
First it assists LGBT religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories.
Secondly LGBTQ-RAN provides an electronic information clearinghouse for these archival collections and other historical data about LGBT religious history for the use of historians researchers and other interested persons.
LGBTQ-RAN can best be understood as a 'virtual' archive. It is not a physical repository that collects and preserves papers and records. Instead LGBTQ-RAN is a resource center that enables the preservation of history and makes historical information easily accessible through this web site. Initiated in 2001 as a project of the Chicago Theological Seminary LGBTQ-RAN has been a program of the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion in Berkeley California since 2008
First it assists LGBT religious leaders and groups in determining how best to preserve their records and papers in appropriate repositories.
Secondly LGBTQ-RAN provides an electronic information clearinghouse for these archival collections and other historical data about LGBT religious history for the use of historians researchers and other interested persons.
LGBTQ-RAN can best be understood as a 'virtual' archive. It is not a physical repository that collects and preserves papers and records. Instead LGBTQ-RAN is a resource center that enables the preservation of history and makes historical information easily accessible through this web site. Initiated in 2001 as a project of the Chicago Theological Seminary LGBTQ-RAN has been a program of the Center for LGBTQ & Gender Studies in Religion in Berkeley California since 2008
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Brian M. Watson