Criterion Q: Archaeology, Context, and the National Park Service’s LGBTQ Heritage Initiative

Summary

The National Park Service (NPS) is undertaking a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage Initiative. Purposes include increasing the number of LGBTQ historic and heritage properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and as National Historic Landmarks (NHL), as well as encouraging interpretation of LGBTQ history at sites managed by the NPS. The creation of an archaeological context facilitates the evaluation of properties under NRHP Criterion D and NHL Criterion 6 (properties that have yielded or may be likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history) – criteria that consider a properties’ archaeological potential. The archaeological context presented here was prepared as part of the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative, and speaks directly to evaluating archaeological properties for the NRHP and NHL.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Queering the Field: Archaeologies of Sexuality, Gender, and Beyond

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