The Tarrant County LGBTQ History Project
About Us
Our Mission
YesterQueer: The Tarrant County LGBTQ History Project is dedicated to preserving the stories, memories, photos, and ephemera of the LGBTQ+ community of Tarrant County. Our goal is to share that information across a variety of digital channels as well as through public discussions and events designed to generate interest in our community's rich history not only with the people who remember it but with future generations of queer youth and anyone else who’s interested in learning from it.
Founder and Director
Todd Camp’s journalism career spans more than two decades, including 18 years at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. His writing was first recognized when he received a Katy Award for his newspaper column “Confessions of a Gay Eagle Scout.” Outside of his journalistic endeavors, Camp has written and illustrated three graphic novels and seven long-running comic strips, including one with the statewide LGBTQ newspaper The Texas Triangle. In 1998, he co-founded Q Cinema, Fort Worth’s Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival, for which he served as Artistic Director for 14 years. In 2022, he won the Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell Award, honoring his chapter on LGBTQ Fort Worth history as the best new entry published in the Handbook of Texas.
He’s currently working on two concurrent books on his more than 180-year-old Fort Worth neighborhood, Chase Court, as well as the Tarrant County LGBTQA+ community.