The Committee will preserve our past by identifying, acquiring, and preserving all forms of materials that embody the culture, society, and history of our people, including personal papers, records of groups, and publications, and by conducting oral histories. It will find or establish a repository for these materials, thereby creating a permanent collection documenting our individual lives and our collective experience. The committee's goals are the empowerment of all of us as LGBT people, the education of ourselves and others as to the importance of our individual and collective experiences, and the maintenance of a history that makes our invisible pasts visible-a history that will further the development of our personal identities, help strengthen the structure of our communities, and celebrate the richness of our culture.
Membership is open to anyone wanting to participate.