The Central Coast Queer Archive Project

CCQAP Queer Night Out Reunion at former Journey’s Inn

Save The Date:   FRIDAY May 12, 2023, 7:00 PM, Jewel Of India Restaurant, 2115 Broad St, SLO

Come share a bit of SLO’s LGBTQ history for Pride Month with a dinner in the space that was once Journey’s Inn, the first known public queer bar in San Luis Obispo. Now an Indian restaurant, we’ll have a reunion with some folks who were there back in the heydays of the 1980s when this was the place to socialize if you were LGBTQ+ in SLO! Seating is limited and RSVP is required.  RSVP at:  https://forms.gle/de5hpmq1JzxLAXcy6

There will also be a Zoom Forum before the event, as part of the Gala Center’s Pride month, from 5-6 PM. Links for that will be send soon.

Welcome to the Central Coast Queer Archive project! In the grid below, you will find all of our projects. Clicking on the “link” icon will take you to the dedicated page for that project. In the near future, we expect to post full transcripts for interviews as well as close captioned interviews for our LGBTQI Elders project.

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About The Project

The CCQAP is a collaborative, community-based effort tasked with documenting the history of queer and trans* lives on the California Central Coast. Our project values the specificity of individual lives, and so we mean the terms “queer and trans*” to encompass not only the recognized range of historically marginalized LGBTQ+ identities, but also the lives of those that do not readily fit into intelligible categories of gender or sexuality.

When not simply overlooked or ignored, such lives have been actively excluded from the official records archived in institutions of public memory.  However, much of the historical information pertaining to queer and trans* lives does survive in the memories of people. For that reason, the CCQAP aims to recover and to preserve those first-hand accounts through recorded interviews and the collection of relevant supplementary materials. 

This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit: www.calhum.org    

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Fiscal Sponsorship provided by the International Documentary Association