{"id":49235,"date":"2018-04-04T16:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=49235"},"modified":"2018-04-04T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:37:57","slug":"land-of-10000-loves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2018\/04\/04\/land-of-10000-loves\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/04\/295570_10102919922433970_1900013903_n2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/04\/295570_10102919922433970_1900013903_n2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of Stewart Van Cleve\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/04\/295570_10102919922433970_1900013903_n2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/04\/295570_10102919922433970_1900013903_n2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2018\/04\/295570_10102919922433970_1900013903_n2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stewart Van Cleve<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stewart Van Cleve is a librarian and digital archivist at Augsburg University\u2019s Lindell Library, where he is responsible for Augsburg\u2019s Digital Archives (library.augsburg.edu\/archives). His passion for archiving began while studying toward a degree in Urban Studies at the University of Minnesota when he had a student position working with the renowned Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. The Tretter Collection is a vast collection of books, photographs, films, and other historical artifacts that Van Cleve calls \u201cone of the most comprehensive accounts of international queer history in the world.\u201d After receiving his master\u2019s in urban studies from Portland State University, Van Cleve decided to pursue a master\u2019s degree in library and information science at St. Catherine University, in St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Van Cleve published his book, <em>Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota<\/em>, a wide-ranging illustrated history of queer life in Minnesota. The book contains more than 120 historical essays\u00a0exploring the\u00a0earliest evidence of queer life in Minnesota before the Second World War\u2014from Oscar Wilde\u2019s visit to Minnesota, riverfront vice districts, protest and parade sites, bars, 1970s collectives, institutions, public spaces, and private homes. This rich history is illustrated in more than 130 examples, including\u00a0images of annual \u201cpride guides,\u201d\u00a0a number of\u00a0archival photographs, and advertisements from local queer bars.<\/p>\n<p>Having worked at Augsburg for nearly a year, Van Cleve says he loves the &#8220;student-centric&#8221; nature of the University. On Thursday, April 5, he\u00a0will be joining the Augsburg Alumni office at its\u00a0Auggies\u00a0in the City:\u00a0Kinky Boots, pre-theater event to discuss his book, and to provide more details on the history of queer life in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Augsburg alumni events please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/events\">www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Van Cleve is a librarian and digital archivist at Augsburg University\u2019s Lindell Library, where he is responsible for Augsburg\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,11,13,737],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-49235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-departments","category-community-connections","category-events","category-news","category-on-campus","tag-alumni-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49239,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49235\/revisions\/49239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}