A new project is documenting the history of LGBTQ people in the Deep South, a region that once all but forced gays, lesbians and others to live in hiding. Burns is now among the donors to a nonprofit organization that's gathering information about the hidden history of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people and others in the Southern United States. The History Project does the same in Boston for New England gays. Historian and archivist Joshua Burford said the goal of the Invisible Histories Project is to create a uniquely Southern collection that will "give Southern history back to queer Southerners." Burford said it's important to document the past accurately because LGBTQ people have been lied about and disregarded for generations.

Source: Fox News August 20, 2018 05:03 UTC