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Come explore the collection of audio and video archives from the Seacoast LGBTQ+ community! The Seacoast NH LGBT History Project has teamed up with the Portsmouth Public Library to make these archives available to the public. Learn how the collections came about, what's included, and how you can access them. Tom Kaufhold and Holly Cashman, collaborators on the NH Seacoast LGBT History Project, will share clips from their oral history project and other video archives at this virtual "ribbon cutting" event.
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About the Presenters
Tom Kaufhold founded the Seacoast NH LGBT History Project in 2015 to collect, preserve, and present the artifacts and stories of the LGBTQ community on the Seacoast of NH. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved in LGBTQ community initiatives in Portsmouth, including an equal rights ordinance and an AIDS service organization. Tom is a retired business systems analyst and has two grown children. He lives in Portsmouth with his husband Michael and enjoys spending time antiquing and playing with his grandchildren.
Holly R. Cashman is Professor of Spanish and Women's & Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire and she coordinates the Queer Studies minor. She is the author of Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual: Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities (Routledge 2018). She is past president of the International Gender and Language Association and the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Cashman was awarded the Kidder Award for “foster[ing] greater understanding of sexual orientation and gender expression”, the UNH President’s Good Steward Award for using professional expertise in service to the wider community, and the Pink Triangle Award for “outstanding contributions to efforts for equity and visibility for the UNH GLBT community”. She lives in Newburyport, Mass. where she serves as co-chair of the Newburyport Pride Board and on the board of directors for the Museum of Old Newbury.