Main exhibit image of protesters picketing, Barbara Gittings carries a sign, "Sexual Preference is Irrelevant to Federal Employment." Photo by Kay Lahusen.
Proclamation 7203 by President Bill Clinton - Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (1999)
"Thirty years ago this month, at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a courageous group of citizens resisted harassment and mistreatment, setting in motion a chain of events that would be known as the Stonewall Uprising ... Gays and lesbians, their families and friends, celebrate the anniversary of Stonewall every June in America as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month."
Color photograph of marchers in the Resistance contingent of the San Francisco Pride Parade carrying signs and wearing t-shirts reading "2nd Generation Immigrant! 1st Generation Proud Queer Activist! Resist" "Love Trumps Hate" "Protest Trans Lives" " Proud and cannot be intimidated" "No mad kings in America" "We the People RESIST".
Attribution:
Courtesy of Pax Ahimsa Gethen, Wikimedia Commons [CC BY-SA 4.0]
Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressing the public from the Department of Justice podium in Washington D.C. regarding federal guidance on the rights of transgender students attending public schools affirmed in a 2016 “Dear Colleague” letter issued by Lynch. Just nine months later, the Trump Administration will officially withdraw those guidelines.
Discussion of We'Wha, a Zuni male who dressed and lived as a woman in her tribe. The Two-Spirit tradition in Native American cultures is well-documented although terminology in government documents often used colonially imposed terminology. For more on the Two-Spirit tradition see Duane Brayboy's discussion in Indian Country Media Network: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/opinions/two-spirits-one-heart-five-genders/
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Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnology, 1902 (The Zuni Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies)
Black and white photograph by Kay Tobin of Barbara Gittings and Isabel Miller kissing at "Hug A Homosexual, Free Kisses: ALA/SST Task Force on Gay Liberation." Barbara Gittings was an activist who changed how LGBTQ people were seen in library cataloging practices and removing homosexuality from the American Psychological Associations list of mental disorders.
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Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections, Manuscripts and Archives Division
Frank Kameny was an early LGBTQ activist. After being fired from his job in the Army Map Service in 1957 for being a homosexual, he sued and lost. Kameny then became an activist and went on to found the Mattachine Society of Washington, DC.