Archives Assistant/Intern,
Folsom Street East
Folsom Street East is a 501c(3) nonprofit organization
serving New York City’s fetish/kink and LGBTQ communities. Our signature event, the annual Folsom Street
East street festival, brings together several thousand kinksters to celebrate
diversity in sexual expression during New York’s Pride Week and has raised over
$350,000 for local and national LGBTQ community organizations over its nearly
twenty-year history.
As part of an effort to collect and preserve our
institutional knowledge as well as contribute to the documentation of New
York’s vibrant LGBTQ history, Folsom Street East has recently deposited its
collection of documents and ephemera at the LGBT Community Center National History
Archive. This presents a unique opportunity for an aspiring archives or records
management professional to participate in the earliest stages of arranging and
describing materials and preparing a finding aid.
Qualifications:
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Coursework completed toward graduate
library/information science or related degree or certificate program
(archives/records management concentrations preferred)
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Availability on weekday afternoons/evenings for
onsite processing at the Archive in Greenwich Village
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Comfort working with sexually oriented textual
and visual materials
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Familiarity with topics/issues related to
fetish/kink and LGBTQ communities in NYC a plus
This is a volunteer position under the supervision of a
professional archivist. Internship opportunities for course credit are
available for students of select programs/institutions.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to the
attention of Rich Wandel at archives@gaycenter.org. Please include “Folsom Street East” in the
subject line.
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