Author Archives: Sharon Thompson

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LHMP Goes to Harvard!

written by on February 10, 2024

    When Kate Horsfield, B. Ruby Rich and I set Lesbian Home Movie Project in motion, we didn’t expect to find a whole lot of amateur lesbian moving images.  We just really loved what serendipity had sent our way — our 16mm Ruth Storm Collection*  and Caren McCourtney’s Super  8 — and we thought […]

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Archiving in a Pandemic: LHMP’s 2021

written by on January 19, 2022

  LHMP had planned to go on the road in 2021, screening private treasures we couldn’t stream, seeking more film & tape collections, and expanding our advisory board as the project gathered more friends. The pandemic put a stop to that plan but we’ve been so busy that it’s hard to imagine how we would […]

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New Collections, Old Times

written by on September 17, 2020

  LHMP’s been super busy working on three remarkable new collections in recent months. As we’ve digitized, talked with footage participants, and catalogued, catalogued, catalogued, we’ve offered tastes of the newest collections through our Facebook page but our newest collections merit a fuller introduction. The first — the Tricia Scully Collection (1940-2008) — is a […]

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Janie Whited, Artist, Clown, Trombonist (1956-2019)

written by on March 29, 2019

An unforgettable presence in Lesbian Home Movie Project video collections, Mary Jane “Janie” Whited died unexpectedly on March 7, 2019, in Everett, Washington, just 63, from complications from an automobile accident that occurred many years earlier in Florida.  She’s just about thirty years younger than that in the clips below, which date from before the […]

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The Archival Gets Personal

written by on April 13, 2018

Even if Lesbian Home Movie Project’s first collection had been a talkie, the only way to have known for sure that at least some of the women in it were lesbian would have been to have known the filmmaker or at least one of the women in the footage. As it happened, I did know […]

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Death Comes to the Archive

written by on January 21, 2018

Archives grow from what elders preserve and death releases, and winters hit the aged hard.  It’s a plain truth no one can celebrate. This polar-vortex winter has been stringent, even in the south, and as 2017 turned into 2018 three women who appear in Lesbian Home Movie Project collections died — ally Barbara Ann Davis […]

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Looking for “Lebisia”

written by on October 17, 2017

Wild and prolific painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Jere Van Syoc transferred from Moody Bible College to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1962 with the modest intention of becoming a high school art teacher.  In her earliest days at SAIC, her roommate the fiber artist Leora Stewart recalls, she still went to […]

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Reading Lips, Keeping Secrets

written by on August 25, 2017

By Sharon Thompson, Executive Director, Lesbian Home Movie Project Lesbian Home Movie Project (LHMP) is nosy. We won’t take footage unless the possessor agrees to help us document it. And we don’t just ask for the meat and potatoes of moving-image archives, dates and locations. We ask what was happening when the footage was captured. […]

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