Meet artist and creator T. Deutch as they discuss their book Queer in the Sunshine State, a collection of 27 interviews about the lives of queer people in Gainesville, FL, the South, and beyond.

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About the Presenter:

T. Deutch (they/them) is a queer Floridan living on occupied Narragansett and Wampanoag land, otherwise known as Providence, Rhode Island. They are a photographer, bookmaker, and improvisers committed to preserving queer oral histories and harnessing our collective power. T. has been working on Queer in the Sunshine State since 2018 and they are excited to continue other iterations of this practice. They live and work between Rhode Island and Florida.

Their Queer in the Sunshine State book began as a project in response to the Florida Legislative Committee, or Johns Committee, which used the power of the state legislature to attack and intimidate Civil Rights Activists and “suspected” gay people at various Florida universities and institutions from 1956 to 1965.

About the Voices from Florida Series:

The Special Collections & Archives division of the Miami-Dade Public Library System presents Voices from Florida, a monthly series about Florida’s culture, literature, history, and communities.