How is the relation between sexuality and solidarity conceptualized in Queer and Transgender Studies, practiced by queer and trans movements historically and in the present, and recorded by LGBTQ+ and other specialized archives?

Image: Coco Guzmán, Amistad/Friendship, 2019

Does the sexual dimension of queer and trans identities and communities facilitate and/or limit solidarity across differences and different regimes of (in)equality, including between queer and trans themselves? Is sexuality inherently social or anti-social, or both?

And how do sexuality and solidarity appear in the archive? How can specialized archives and heritage institutions, such as LGBTQ+ archives, record and foreground relations among heterogeneous subjects dispersed across a larger archival field?

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