GAGV Library & Archives

Information

The GAGV Library is a circulating and reference collection of over 3,000 fiction and non-fiction books, and 800 magazine and journal titles, as well as video and audio recordings related to gay and lesbian, bi-sexual and trans-gendered issues.

The GAGV Archive houses a historical collection of copies of the Empty Closet newspaper, as well as vital paper records and ephemera of the events, organizations, and people important to the Rochester GLBT community.

Hours:
6 p.m. - 8 p.m Wednesday nights

Address:
Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley
Administrative Offices
Auditorium Center, 5th Floor
875 E. Main St.
Rochester, NY 14607-1747
Click for map.

Book return:
During library hours, or during weekdays from
9 a.m.- 5 p.m. to the GAGV Offices (address above)

Staff:

Gerry Szymanski,GAGV Librarian
Peter Woods, Library Assistant
Jeff Fowler, Library Assistant

Visit the GAGV Archive Collection at Cornell University.
Visit a frequently updated Gay Book Blog.

In most professions, it really helps to be passionately in love with your work. Librarian, archivist and curator Brenda Marston is just one of those people.

As one of the country’s top curators, Marston has been in charge of Cornell University’s Human Sexuality Collection (HSC) since 1989. Even though Cornell is located smack-dab in the middle of New York State, the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley has been housing their history and administrative records in Ithaca since 1994. Brenda talks fondly of the GAGV’s collection, saying that “Rochester’s rich history is critical to our library. Cornell’s mission is two fold– national and upstate New York.” read more