AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive

Jonathan Harborne founded his LGBT history encyclopedia 15 years ago to document some of the struggles his peers had encountered in their lives. He worried that even as changing social values made life better for LGBTQ+ people, the struggles past generations had endured for recognition and respect could be wiped from memory, along with the pain caused by the AIDS pandemic. The site, the LGBT History Project, recently passed 50 million views since its launch in 2011 and has been archived by th...