Ephemeral Material: Queering the Archive articulates a queer approach to archival studies and archival practice, and establishes the relevance of this approach beyond collections with LGBTQ content. The book argues that queering the archive (thinking through queer interests, experiences, explanatory frameworks, and cultural practices) allows us to think critically about established archival principles and practices. It describes and interprets the work of archivists, community documentarians, activists, and scholars who preserve materials documenting queer lives and experiences, and imagines how we might respond to the particular demands of archiving queer cultures. Ephemeral Material brings work by scholars in history, performance studies, queer studies, and other areas of the humanities into conversation with the practical and theoretical concerns of archivists and librarians. The book supports its conceptual work with concrete examples of collecting and documentation projects and with analyses of popular media that represent (and critique) archival spaces and practices.