SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Government of the Canary Islands has made this Friday an act of delivery of various historical material related to the LGTBI collective to the provincial archives.
The documents have been presented in the Historical Archive of La Laguna in an act that was attended by the general director of Heritage, Nona Perera, and the general director of Diversity, Víctor Raímrez, and framed within the Historical Memory Strategy of the Sexual and Gender Dissidents promoted by the General Directorate of Diversity in collaboration with the Vice-Ministry of Justice and the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, in order to recover and disseminate the memory of these sexual and gender dissidents.
As Ramírez explained, “this documentation offers a necessary material for the research field that will help to complement the gaps in our recent history while also serving as instruments for educational dissemination”.
Within the Strategy of Historical Memory of Sexual and Gender Dissidents, a research process is developed with the aim of recovering this memory and, among other more specific ones, to compile documentation related to it, in any medium, and put it to use. availability of provincial historical archives for cataloging and making available to people interested in the subject.
Specifically, in Tenerife, various documents were handed over to four people on the island of Tenerife who temporarily gave up their personal archive to be digitized and included in the Archive.
Specifically, it consists of 103 photographs, dated between 1947 and 1998, four long-length audiovisual documents, two artistic works and various press clippings.
For its part, the delivery to the Provincial Historical Archive of Las Palmas is composed of various documents belonging to the personal archives of four people in Gran Canaria, consisting of a number greater than one hundred photographs, dated between 1970 and 2000, which will be digitized and included in the File.
“These documents shed light on the life processes of the people who give them up but, in the same way, they provide information on meeting places and support networks and document repressive actions,” the general director of Diversity, Víctor, commented in a note. Ramirez.
The documents delivered will follow a cleaning and digitization procedure after which they will be returned to the owners.
These first documents, once digitized, will be cataloged and included in the Archive for the Historical Memory of Sexual and Gender Dissidents, whose public dissemination is scheduled throughout 2022.
INCREASE AND EXPANSION OF THE HISTORICAL MEMORY ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL AND GENDER DISSIDENCIES
The General Directorate of Diversity plans, during the first months of 2022, to continue providing various material and documents for the Archive, which will include not only private files of people who transfer them temporarily for digitization or permanently for their custody in the archives, but will also contain the materials contributed by the LGBTI associations and documents from the documentation work of the project team.
To date, 15 LGBTI people have been interviewed and a total of 30 are expected by the end of 2021.
These are people who have contributed their personal experiences to the project and who will be part, in audiovisual format, of the Provincial Archives as research material, in addition to the historiographic material that they contribute.
On the other hand, in 2021 a specific section for sexual and gender dissidence has been created on the historical memory website of the Vice-Ministry of Justice, which includes audiovisual material, pills made, indications of places of memory, among other issues . This website will be updated as the investigation progresses.
