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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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