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These primary materials are organized into boxes according to individuals, organizations, and themes, stuffed into filing cabinets that span two rooms and a basement. It is in the main room where I am greeted by the smiling faces of Dorothy and Father Maurice, the lead parish priest at Immaculate Conception.

As Dorothy walks to the basement, her words linger through my mind as a comb through conference pamphlets, left alone in a room saturated in ephemera with little known traces of queer life. Finding her way to the United States because of the political threat the Marcos regime presented to her wealthy family following the declaration of Martial Law in the Philippines, the 3-page paper first routes her life as a gay man before transitioning to a story of working for her San Diego-based employer — a man who eventually paid for her transition to become female, given the love she first provided as his live-in caregiver and later, his wife.

In the afternoon, I am greeted by three volunteer archivists. What, then, did the archive become for me in that moment? And what does it mean when digital preservation of the National Pinoy Archives is sustained through the very real and physical labor of a gay-volunteer-archivist-turned-drag-queen, despite the fact that his existence is virtually non-existent in the history he willingly preserves?

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His academic work is informed by his activist background in queer religious organizing, stemming from his participation with the Soulfource Equality Ride. Topic Headlines, June Date June 5, Written By Darren Arquero. Immaculate Conception in Seattle.

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