CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Magalhães Ferreira, João Francisco |
|---|---|
| Title | Archiving the Queer in Portugal: The Case of the Goncalo Diniz Documentation Centre |
| Summary | This thesis examines the Gonçalo Diniz Documentation Centre (CDOC) at ILGA Portugal as a precarious yet generative and significant site of queer memory work in the country. Basing my research on oral history interviews with key individuals involved in the CDOC’s development, I explore how the documentation centre has been imagined, experienced and sustained since its creation in 1997. Drawing from Archival Studies and Queer Studies, this thesis conceptualises the CDOC as a queer living archive, where memory, identity, desire and expectations, and temporality are continuously negotiated. I argue that the CDOC and its queer memory work are marked by discontinuity, volunteer labour, improvisation, structural precarity, and affective investment and care. Its history also reflects some of the broader tensions within LGBTQ+ activism and movements, like institutionalisation and grassroots impulses. This research does not attempt to produce an extensive institutional history or catalogue of the CDOC. Its intent is to document the fragmentary experiences and to contribute to the developing field of Queer Studies in Portugal, while also broadening the dominant geographies of queer archiving. It is also a situated and affective practice of knowledge production and an archival effort. Across the chapters, I examine the CDOC’s contested origins, its evolving structure and operationalisation, and its potential futures, framing the documentation centre as a space of queer world-making. Keywords: queer archives; oral history; queer memory; temporality; Archival Studies; LGBTQ+ community; Queer Studies; ILGA Portugal; Portugal |
| Supervisor | Jones-Gailani, Nadia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/magalhaes_joao.pdf |
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