from the American Sociological Association, the American Anthropological Association and the Lambda Literary Foundation, and was reprinted on its 20th anniversary. Davis published numerous journal and magazine articles on sexuality and women's history, as well as short stories and poetry. In 2001, Davis founded the Buffalo Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Archives, which collects and preserves the history of Buffalo and western New York's gay communities. The archives were moved to the E. H. Butler Library at Buffalo State College in 2009 and called the Dr. Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York. The archives house the largest collection of LGBTQ+ documents in the region. Retired in 1995 from her day job as a chief conservator and head of preservation in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System, Davis worked as a writer, archivist, historian, political activist, and director of the archives. In 2009, Davis was the subject of the documentary film Swimming with Lesbians, directed by David B. Marshall. The documentary outlined her work with the archives as well as her personal life and that of her close friends. The film won the Mary Elizabeth Knight Award (Jury Award for Best Local Film) at the 2009 ImageOUT film festival in Rochester, New York, and both Marshall and Davis were present at the screening at the George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre. In 2012, Davis was named as an inductee of The Advocate magazine's Hall of Fame. Davis was the inductee representing 1972, the year she became the first openly gay delegate to a major party's national convention. Davis continued to be involved in politics, and served as the vice president for community liaison for Stonewall Democrats. Music Following her 1971 speech at the gay rights march in Albany, Davis wrote a poem titled, "From the Steps of the Capitol, 1971" as well as a song "Stonewall Nation" on the way home, inspired by the protest crowd. The song was recorded, released (with the poem) as a record to raise funds for the Mattachine Society of the Niagara Frontier, and ultimately became the first gay liberation record. In 2018, music website Pitchfork named it to a list of "50 Songs That Define the Last 50 Years of LGBTQ+ Pride". Davis continued to perform womyn's music throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1983, Davis produced a tape of original lesbian music titled "Daughter of All Women" which included the songs "Stonewall