“Our responsibility is that if there isn’t somebody out there talking to ordinary lesbians, telling that their lives are important, and that the material from their lives, their letters, their photos, their diaries, their personally-created memorabilia, are important, if there isn’t somebody out there telling these women, ‘Actually, your life is really important, and someday 10 years from now a researcher is going to be thrilled to look at your photos,’ the’ll throw them away.””