Marie Jayne Kuda (1940–2016) was an American writer, lecturer, publisher, and historian of LGBT culture in Chicago.
Her collection contained over 100,000 documents and ephemera and her research extended to LGBT culture from ancient times through the 20th century.
[2] Throughout her life, Kuda created an archive of over 100,000 documents, matchbooks, buttons, and other ephemera to tell the story of LGBT culture in Chicago.
[1] In 1978, she began giving slide presentations to share the contributions that lesbians and gay men had made to mainstream culture.
Kuda suffered from heart failure and died on October 1, 2016, at Alden Town Manor in Cicero, Illinois.