This dissertation investigates archival work concerning the history and preservation of queer games and play experiences. Current scholarship in archival practice, queer history, and game studies focus on archival methods, the history of games in general, or the queerness of games in the present, without a specific focus on the intersection of archives and preservation of games and play experiences. This study therefore asks the following questions: What efforts are being made in game studies to preserve the history of games and those who play them? What do those methods look like in comparison to an archive of queer games constructed by and concerning the experiences of queer people? What can game studies do to more accurately preserve and lift up the voices of marginalized groups in gaming culture? To answer these questions I developed a six move methodology that interweaves interdisciplinary areas, including archival practice, queer theory, games history, and the lived experience of the author as a queer and transgender individual: 1) Weaving methodological strands together; 2) Defining a transparent method for insider research; 3) Decolonizing and redefining axes of marginalization; 4) Integrating queerness, game studies, and interdisciplinarity; 5) Turning to the archives; and 6) Enacting and maintaining activism, advocacy, and community. The study conducts two case studies examining efforts in archiving and preservation to lift up the voices of marginalized people, taking place at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, and the all-digital LGBTQ+ Video Game Archive, respectively. The cases find that both archives engage in efforts to preserve queer gaming history to not only preserve history but look to the future and how to best serve marginalized populations. This occurs through collaboration between communities and sharing resources between archives and examining the interaction between the Strong and the LGBTQ+ Video Game Archive provides insight into practical methods for preserving and lifting up marginalized voices in gaming history, including larger archives providing resources to assist smaller archives with access and long-term storage. Collaborative efforts to preserve specific queer video games such as <i>Caper in the Castro</i> provide specific examples of the two archives working together towards ensuring queer game history is preserved and accessible to scholars and gamers in the future. Highlighting the collaborative work and connections between the case studies demonstrates that the methods in use to preserve queer history rely on queer archival practices like community interaction and collaboration to best serve marginalized communities in the preservation of their histories and experiences

No scale provided. Researched by Dr. Nat E. Hyder and Midred Kozsuch. Cartography and illustration by Alan Park in 1980. Overmountain Press. Indicates mills, forges, and places of interest. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1120/thumbnail.jpg

Scale 1 inch = 1.9 Statute Miles. Indicates churches, schoolhouses, mills, and homes. Includes an enlarged map of the town of Stuart. Drawn in 1976 for the Patrick County - Stuart Chamber of Commerce by Eugene M. Scheel of Waterford, Va. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1121/thumbnail.jpg

Hand drawn map by Susan Patrick of the Woman's Civic Club (no. 435 out of 500), with a handwritten date of 1976. Includes drawings of Sinking Creek Baptish Church, covered bridge, Roan Mountain, Seeger Memorial Chapel, Fort Watauga, the Monument, and the Mansion. No scale provided. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1124/thumbnail.jpg

No scale provided. Drawn by Louis T. Ketron in 1971. Map of Hawkins County (Tenn.) marking historically significant spots from 1771 to 1971. A legend in the front upper left corner (continues on back) lists over 400 events important to the history of Hawkins County, including the founding of Rogersville, a Civil War battle in Rogersville, the organization of the first Circuit Court, and the establishment of post offices. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1127/thumbnail.jpg

Indicates county lines, county seats, villages, stations, cabins, churches, mills, mines, roads, trails, rivers, creeks, and ferries for Jefferson County as they were in 1836. Compiled by George A. Bauman from research and data obtained from the old map section of the Tennessee State Archives located at Nashville, Tennessee. Rendered by Patti Ann Bauman. Dandridge, Tennessee, 1976. Scale 1 in = 2 miles. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1133/thumbnail.jpg

Tracing of a modern highway map showing principal watercourses, county seats, present county lines. County derivations taken from "Chart Showing Origin of North Carolina Counties" by D.L. Corbitt of the NC Historical Commission and L. Polk Denmark of the State Highway and Public Works Commission. Published 1940 by the NC Historical Commissions with note: "Date shown is that of Assembly which authorized formation of county." Drawn May 1968 by Katherine W. Ewing, Nashville, Tennessee. Copyright Katherine W. Ewing, 1973. No scale provided. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1138/thumbnail.jpg

Includes county history and military history, along with two inset maps: one of the town of Salem as it existed in 1802 and one of Augusta County as it existed in 1738. Compiled from old maps, historical records, and traditions by J.R. Hildebrand. The Roanoke Historical Society, 1968. No scale provided. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1139/thumbnail.jpg

Indicates existing buildings, buildings no longer standing, cemeteries, roads, streams, county boundaries, and contour lines. Drawn by Larry Spangler, April 1984. No scale provided. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1140/thumbnail.jpg

American Photo-Lithographic Company, N.Y. (Osborne's Process). Hand-labeled C-1860. Likely printed ca. 1866-1884. No scale provided. / https://dc.etsu.edu/rare-maps/1153/thumbnail.jpg