2019 New York LGBTQ Film Festival Review: A Community Of Lesbian Women Begin Preserving Their History Through Archiving Their Stories In “The Archivettes”

  Led by local heroes Deb Edel and Joan Nestle in the 1970s, a group of young lesbians, frustrated by misogyny and homophobia within academia, huddled together and built an accessible archive of lesbian documents and artifacts for those conducting research, both professional and personal. The location: a bedroom in a modest apartment on Manhattan’s …