Debra Brit co-founded the National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture (Mansfield, Massachusetts) in 2012 from what originally began as a family collection curated to instill Black feminist pride in Britt and her sisters as a young Black girls. Britt has used the collection to celebrate Black and African American history in a predominantly white Boston suburb. The future of the Museum is currently in flux following its physical closure during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020.

Choreographer Muna Tseng administers the artistic estate of her late brother Tseng Kwong Chi from her Greenwich Village  apartment in New York City. Tseng Kwong Chi is perhaps best known for his photographs of the 1980s NYC art scene, including his long-time collaborator Keith Haring. While contemporary recognition of the Tsengs’ work have situated their art alongside Asian American artists, Muna’s work as performer and archivists often pushes again these identity labels.

Since 1977 trans archivist Ben Power has lived alongside and curated the Sexual Minorities Archives (Holyoke, Massachusetts) after reclaiming materials from a disbanding lesbian separatist group in Chicago. As Power’s own understanding of his personal sexual and gender identities have developed, he has expanded the collection to include a greater breadth of materials from gender and sexual minorities.