Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies

In late May, Phil Wilke and Jean Tretter went to Moscow for Gay Pride festival and conference. Participants there were met with hostility by the local skinheads and a government which has turned its back on its GLBT citizens.

Phil wrote of their experiences for PULSE…

Traveling to Berlin for Christopher Street Day festival.. and to visit friends of the Tretter Collection who live there.

Mike will be blogging at: http://trettercollection.blogspot.com/

The second issue of the Tretter Letter , a newsletter for Friends of the Tretter Collection is now available.

Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
May 18 - 21, 2006

Events schedule..

The Tretter Collection is proud to host the eBook:

Aussen Hui, Innen Pfui! and/or make mine CamP:
reconstructing bi Bernhard’s perverse bodies

By Dr. Stuart Ferguson

Please follow the link found in the right column of this page.

Presented by:

• University of Minnesota Libraries
• the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies
• Quatrefoil Library

For futher info, use ALMS logo above, or link at right under “Nation/World”

GLBT Pride/Twin Cities is pleased to be the host of the 2005 InterPride Annual General Meeting and Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. InterPride is the International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Coordinators. InterPride exists to promote Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride on an international level, to increase networking and communication among Pride groups, to encourage diverse communities to hold Pride events and to act as a source of education.

The 2005 World InterPride Conference will be held Thursday, October 13, 2005 through Sunday, October 16, 2005.

Further Information…

An international conference for professionals from GLBT archives, libraries, museums and special collections Minneapolis, Minnesota USA May 18 – 21, 2006

Presented by the University of Minnesota Libraries, the Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies, and Quatrefoil Library

GLBT ALMS 2006 is the first formal world conference for professionals working with GLBT archives, libraries, museums and special collections. Led by experts from the field, the conference will explore a range of current professional topics, including:

* Cataloging GLBT collections
* Fundraising for GLBT collections
* Censorship and sexually-explicit material
* Integrating GLBT collections into the classroom
* Preservation issues
* Working with the media
* and more!

Further Information…

Dear Board of Advisors,

It is once again my sad duty to bring you news of the passing of a great friend and donor to the Tretter Collection. Tobias Schneebaum died of complications of Parkinson’s disease on Tuesday, September 20, 2005 in Great Neck, N.Y. He was, it is believed, to be 84 years old. He is survived by long time companion, Joel Singer

Tobias’s sincere desire in donating his personal papers to the Tretter Collection was that history never be rewritten to say or ignore the fact that he was a Gay man. His other hope was that we would also be able to preserve the knowledge that the Tribes he so dearly loved, and lived with, and spent his life documenting also not have their history rewritten and that the GLBT aspects of their lives be preserved for generations of GLBT people yet to come.

Even in our sadness with his passing we must keep his charge to us and trust in us forever in mind. Tobias, like so many other of our friends and community members, believed in us and our work. Our work has only just begun.

Respectfully submitted,

Jean