The American Historical Association Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History has awarded the IC LGBT Center’s Ithaca LGBTQ History Tour the Allan Bérubé Prize for outstanding work in public or community-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer history. The prize is underwritten by the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco.
Here is what the prize committee had to say:
"The Ithaca LGBT History Tour is our choice for the 2022 Allan Bérubé Prize. This campus/community collaboration that aims to preserve the LGBTQ history of Ithaca and Tompkins County, NY, represents a model of local public history that reaches beyond the physical boundaries of its locality to engage with broader communities of LGBTQ people as well as historians and marginalized groups. Its approach is well thought out and appealing to the broader public, with conscious and meticulous planning to allow the guide to be used and accessed much more globally than its specifically geographical focus. Particularly in the midst of Covid and ongoing discussions about accessibility and virtual event best practices, this virtual tour—with its easy mobile availability—provides an outstanding example of how to create queer sites applications for other locales, both large and small."
Congratulations!