The Hometown Advantage

In this webinar, we will challenge the popular misconception that LGBTQ history only happened in NYC or the Bay Area and show that LGBTQ people of all races and cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds have always been part of Western New York's history.  Celebrate Pride with a local perspective!

About Ana Grujić and Adrienne Hill
Ana Grujić is a founding member of the Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project, and a scholar and activist whose work has been published in Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory, Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, and ArtLeaks Gazette. Ana was part of installing the only queer-themed historic marker in New York outside of NYC. She was born and grew up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and has been a denizen of diaspora since the late aughts. Today, she lives in Buffalo and teaches for the Bard Prison Initiative and at University at Buffalo. 

Adrienne Hill is the co-founder and board president of the Buffalo- Niagara LGBTQ History Project. Born in Portland, Oregon, she moved to Buffalo in 2012, where her love of dusty old archives, friendships with LGBTQ elders, and burgeoning interest in Rust Belt history inspired her to design public projects celebrating local LGBTQ history. Under her direction, the History Project has designed multiple public educational events, and installed the first LGBTQ-themed historic plaque in all of Western New York. When she is not researching queer and trans histories, Adrienne can be found hiking one of Western New York’s many trails, people watching in her neighborhood coffee shop, or curling up with a good book, usually accompanied by her partner Ana, her pit bull mix Mabel, or her cat Jolene.