MARKETING GLBT PRESERVATION

Inform established GLBT academic and arts groups about the conference and future meetings, e.g., City College Gay and Lesbian Studies and College Art Association which has a session devoted to GLBT studies at its annual meeting.

Provide "resource directory" on website including how to get help with preservation, whom to call, professional associations, and success stories-- project showcases. Fund research projects with grants? Certify/license preservation professionals? Produce art exhibit that travels or resides in City Hall?

Market the next conference: link to SF Pride, then move conference to other pride events. "When you get bored with preserving your youth, come and find out about preserving your heritage."

FRIENDS OF 1800 WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT

Develop links/access to already produced gay sites maps (New York, Boston, and Los Angeles).

Use website/email list for networking ­ h-list.  Broaden the website to be interactive thereby international.
 

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL GLBT ISSUES

Create a greater critical mass gained through national focus.

Move to an international focus.

Would like to reiterate the comments of Marie Nelson.  Preservationists (of any stripe) need to connect with the preservation officers in their state to facilitate the landmarking, nomination process.  Architectural historians need to be more informed of GLBT history.  Academic departments teaching this discipline must be encouraged to study this history as much as Palladio or Mumford.

Evolve into a gay and lesbian preservation organization; support landmarking, history campaigns; media contact, professional standards, etc.

There should be a National GLBT association.

Create framework for GLBT physical built heritage; connect to heritage with other cities with similar gay heritage backgrounds.
 

PARTNERSHIPS

Start a national organization with queer focus.

Work with "gatekeepers" outside of preservation circles also ­ especially planning, economic development, progressive causes (affordable housing, transit, etc.) to highlight importance of history in our neighborhoods and future.

Local groups should support each other across the country in their efforts to save local GLBT sites. Wouldn't it be great to get letters of support from all over the country to save a bar in Detroit or Denver? Because each local site is part of the history of a national movement, not just something that happened in NY and CA.

Conferences educate ourselves but don't reach the gatekeepers who have control over us.

Look at younger generation.