In Memoriam
1951–2020
Len Keller
Curator, photographer, and filmmaker Lenn Keller, who founded the Bay Area Lesbian Archives (BALA) in 2014, has died of cancer. In creating BALA, she “recognized the critical need for Bay Area lesbian history to be preserved,” according to her team at the nonprofit: Rebecca Silverstein, Sharon Davenport, and Nancy Rupprecht.
“Lenn’s vision was a physical and online archives dedicated to the preservation of the richly diverse lesbian history of the Bay Area an archives where anyone could access materials about a community that contributed so much to the Bay Area,” they added.
Sharing this vision, the core group of women with Keller helped to make the Oakland-based archives a reality.