HARRISON APPLE

Dr. Harrison Apple is an oral historian and archivist who began the Pittsburgh Queer History Project after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University. They received their PhD in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona. Their work examines local histories of voluntary associations and ‘drinking clubs’ as the context for the Pittsburgh Queer History Project’s archives. Their work asks why these materials come together as a community archives, beyond their relationship to sexual identity, working with the overlapping meanings of “membership” that circulate in the PQHP’s records.