You probably don’t know the name Paul Fasana. But the librarian was instrumental in preserving hundreds of thousands of artifacts of queer history.
According to Hunter O’Hanian
Just how big of an archive are we talking? Stacked vertically, SNMAL’s collections would reach twice the height of the Empire State Building. Counting just the paper files alone, there are six million pages of material. And SNMAL is just one of the queer archives working independently, at the margins of financial solvency, to keep our history out of the trash and in the hands of people like me, and you, and those who come after us.
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