"Living as a closeted student in TX is hell, can't wait to come to a place like this in the fall. Thank you for the hope <3. - Genderfluid//Pansexual, 4.8.17"
"Thank you for this extremely intersectional + informational exhibit. Excellent + I hope you can keep this in rotation. So important! 4/9/18"
"'Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it!' Thank you for providing such an informative, well-curated and detailed reminder of all we in the LGBTQ have had to endure and of how much we have left. Proud to be a bear! -David, JD '18, a gay Berkeley student."
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
"Exhibits like these always remind me that queers have forever been here and that it has taken way too long to get where we are. -Jenna, 2nd yr"
"Thank you for this thoughtful exhibit. During increasingly turbulent times it's especially important to shed light on the journey of the oppressed, marginalized, and 'others'. I'm reminded of the exhausting-- often demoralizing road, and thus I'm keenly cognizant of how much we could lose-- again. Christopher //2004//, 5/3/18"
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
"thank you. -a gay 2nd year"
"Wonderful collection. Thanks so much! -Alisha"
"<--ditto"
"A beautiful collection. A sobering & inspiring reminder of where we've come from, & the need for vigilance & outreach to protect what gains we've earned. -Nick B. (Class of 2018)"
"I remember... 33 yrs staff; class of 2012 -Jonathan W."
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
"Thank you for representing the voices, struggles, triumphs, and personalities of those revolutionary leaders who came before us + put their lives into equality for us LGBT individuals. -A queer freshman <3"
"Great exhibit! -Geoffrey U., PhD, Poli Sci, '17"
"good hand"
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
"This exhibit is gorgeous, provocative, thoughtful, profound. Thank you. Annie"
"Thank you for the exhibit! Kathleen"
"Really great place. Epic Library. Thanks, Timo from Levven (Belgium)"
"Thank you so much for sharing. Exquisite and Emotional."
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
"This is an extraordinarily thoughtful and deeply researched exhibit. THANK YOU. Timely, too! - A professor at UCB"
"Can't wait to go here #2024"
"Greetings from Devine"
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
Photograph of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base personnel posed in front of a banner hung from a chainlink fence reading "LGBT Pride Month: Strength Through Diversity, Davis-Monthan AFB".
Black and white photograph by Cathy Cade of marchers in San Francisco carrying banner "Down with Apartheid: U.S. Out of Southern Africa, Victory to UNC and SWAPO, Southern Africa Freedoom Committee, All-Peoples Congress" "Fight Lesbian and Gay Oppression, All-Peoples Congress".
In 1953, the Post Office declared One magazine obscene under the Comstock Act and seized it. One magazine was the publication of the Mattachine Society, and contained articles supporting homosexuality. The publisher sued the government and lost. They appealed to the 9th Circuit and the court agreed that One magazine was obscene. The publisher appealed to the Supreme Court. While the court decided not to hear the case, they issued a very tiny opinion that reversed the decision of the lower courts, thereby enabling the Mattachine and other groups like it to use the mail to begin communicating, organizing etc. This was pre-internet and the postal mail was one of the few means of mass communication to do large scale organizing, and because of the impact this ruling offered had on the ability for the LGBTQ community to organize, this short ruling is probably one of the most important lgbt documents.
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United States. Supreme Court. United States Reports: Cases Adjudged In the Supreme Court. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.; For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off. Retrieved from HathiTrust,
"This was a very moving exhibit. My wife and I married on September 28, 2016, just over a year after gay marriage was legalized. We shed a few tears when we came to that part of the exhibit. My wife is from Brazil and without being legally married we could not live in the same country."
Attribution:
Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"