Elvis Bakaitis
(they/them)
Head of Reference
Elvis Bakaitis is a proud member of CUNY’s University LGBTQ Council, and Chair of the Preferred Names & Gender Subcommittee. They are a board member for CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, as well as Chair of the CLAGS Archives Committee. Bakaitis has served as a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives since 2014.
Academic Interests
Co-curator of exhibit By the Force of Our Presence: Highlights from the Lesbian Herstory Archives, New York Historical Society (May 24-Sept 22, 2019).
Co-curator of traveling exhibit “Graphic Activism,” at the Ace Hotel, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Graduate Center.
Artwork exhibited in:
Our Comics, Ourselves (Interference Archive)
Alive and Yelling (SUNY New Paltz)
Publications
Review of On the Queer Waterfront, an exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society, on Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History.OER Literature Reviews in Context, in Building Open Infrastructure at CUNY, published on Manifold.
