Aiden Bettine is an archivist and historian who researches and teaches local history pertaining to race, gender, and sexuality in the Midwest. His community work prioritizes creating generative spaces for LGBTQ people to learn, share, and research our history. Aiden founded the LGBTQ Iowa Archives & Library, a community archives and lending library in Iowa City and served as Community & Student Life Archivist at the University of Iowa. His dissertation research examines the history of queer community archives founded in the 1970s and 1980s across the United States and the networks that lesbian and gay community archivists and librarians built to facilitate the preservation of LGBTQ history.

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Presented by the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, Collecting Oral Histories of West Central Minnesota.