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Out in the World: French LGBTQ preservationists push back against government

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French LGBTQ cultural preservationists are standing their ground against the French government in their effort to establish an independent LGBTQ history archive and center in Paris.

The Collectif Archives LGBTQI's resistance is being met with unprecedented support from 45 established LGBTQ historical archives and museums from 22 countries that signed onto a forceful rebuttal to French officials published by national French newspaper Liberation January 8.

The GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco, Paris' sister city, was one of the institutions that signed the letter. "It is important that we ourselves must be the keepers of our own stories and artifacts and oversee these institutions," Terry Beswick, executive director of the GLBT

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