Two moms and son embrace on the steps of the Alameda County Courthouse on 1225 Fallon St, Oakland holding up their adoption paperwork. Black and white photograph signed by Cathy Cade.
Black and white photograph of two mothers with son leaving the Alameda County Courthouse stairs holding hands, carrying adoption paperwork and smiling.
Color photograph of Helen James in her home, holding a photo album of her time in the Air Force. Six decades after the Air Force kicked her out for being a lesbian, James was finally awarded the honorable discharge. Approximately 100,000 lesbian and gay veterans were dishonorably discharged from the military since World War II; they were stigmatized, harrassed and denied crucial veterans’ benefits.
Color photograph of the gravesite of Leonard Matlovich reads, "Never Again 6 July 1943 / Never Forget 22 June 1988. A Gay Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men - And a discharge for loving one."
"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."
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Bernice Layne Brown Gallery, Doe Memorial Library, UC Berkeley Exhibit "We're Here, We're Queer, and We're in the Public Record!"
"This made me cry. I am a lesbian and seeing how our love has always existed and how we have been ostracized by our government is impactful. Knowing that the government let (primarily) gay men and trans women die of AIDS hurts, knowing that people couldn't have legal access to partners dying of AIDS b/c gay marriage wasn't legal breaks my heart. Most of all, seeing how my community has stuck together and marched in the streets for our rights fills me with unmeasurable pride. We will never go away."
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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"
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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."
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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"
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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 photo by Cathy Cade of marchers in San Francisco carrying banner "Asian/Pacific Lesbians, for the love of women/bagi cinta pada wanita/sa pag-mahal ng babae/tình yêu của phụ nữ/kealoha o wahine/女への愛のために/[chinese characters]/for the love of ♀".
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".
Black and white photograph by Cathy Cade of marchers in the street carrying banners "Mujeres en Lucha, Lesbianas Latinas" "Gay Latinos for the Nicaraguan Revolution."
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".
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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.
Two dads with three kids holding hands marching in the San Francisco Pride Parade. One father wearing a "Gay Fathers" t-shirt carries a sign in the shape of a heart reading, "Born July 24, 1949? Then you and I are astrol. perfectly matched lovers come on over & say 'Hi'". The other father carries another heart sign that says, "Our family's 6th gay freedom day parade: Strengthening our ties - Breaking Society's [image of chains]."
Archive of photographic negatives, work prints, project files, exhibition prints, and personal papers of San Francisco Bay Area photographer Cathy Cade. Cade's work documents lesbian and gay life, particularly in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco, chiefly in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Black and white poster of five Asian men with caption reading, "It's natural." "Su sõng däy dú và có y ngïa hòn khi chúng ta khoé manh." Subscript reads, "Muón thém chi tiét xin lién lac Asian AIDS Project dięn thoai sõ (415) 227-0946"
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GLBT Historical Society Poster Collection, photograph courtesy of Lincoln Cushing
"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!"
Color photograph poster with headline, "Asian Pacific Islander Transgender/Transsexual, Love Yourself, Use A Condom." Subtext reads, "Asian AIDS Project, Chameleon Program, 785 Market St., Suite 420, San Francisco, CA 94103, 415/227-1587."
Attribution:
GLBT Historical Society Poster Collection, photograph courtesy of Lincoln Cushing
