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We Will Always Be Here: Wisconsin's LGBTQ+ Historymakers

A Traveling Display
Meet some of our LGBTQ+ visionaries, changemakers, and storytellers, get inspired, and share your story.
Feature Story

We've Been Here All Along: Early Gay History in Wisconsin

An excerpt from the R. Richard Wagner book, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society press
An excerpt from the R. Richard Wagner book "We've Been Here All Along: Early Gay History in Wisconsin" published by the Wisconsin Historical Society press
Feature Story

Button from Tammy Baldwin’s first campaign for Wisconsin State Assembly

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
This button was made for Tammy Baldwin’s first campaign for Wisconsin State Assembly in 1992.
Feature Story

T-shirt celebrating Wisconsin’s pioneering Lesbian & Gay Rights legislation

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Bonnie Augusta wore this shirt to the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights
Feature Story

David Carter

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
David Carter, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Judy Greenspan

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Judy Greenspan, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Lou Sullivan

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Lou Sullivan, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Feature Story

Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans

Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Donna Burkett and Manonia Evans, Celebrating Wisconsin Visionaries, Changemakers, and Storytellers
Poster

Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality

Date: 1970
Description: Poster promoting a meeting of M.A.H.E. (Madison Alliance for Homosexual Equality) to be held every Wednesday evening at 9:00pm at the St. Francis House.
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1971
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at 10 Langdon Street. A .75 donation is suggested for the National Gay Convention, on Thankgsgiving in Madison. The...
Manuscript

Gay is Good

Date: 1972
Description: Cover of document manifesto of the Gay Liberation Front entitled "Gay is Good". Includes male and female gender symbols.
Poster

Gay Dance

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a gay dance to be held at the Memorial Union's Old Madison Room. Donation fee of .50 requested. Additional graffitti reads "No Union Scabs...
Poster

Those Gay Boys are Takin' Over

Date: 1971
Description: Poster produced by the Madison Gay Liberation Front promoting their weekly meeting at the St. Francis House, located at 1001 University Avenue. A young man...
Poster

Womens Dance

Date: 1972
Description: Poster promoting a benefit for the New Womens Center to be held at Crossroads, located at 301 1/2 North Hamilton Street. Illustration depicts four women da...
Poster

Urgent Lesbian Meeting

Date: 1973
Description: Poster proclaiming the need for an urgent lesbian meeting. Poster depicts Athena with shield. Agenda for meeting includes a speakers bureau, counseling gro...
Poster

Women's Dance

Date: 1971
Description: Hand-lettered poster promoting a Women's Dance on Saturday November 6th at 9pm at 10 Langdon Street. The illustration depicts a flower constructed of the s...
Poster

Gay Liberation Poster

Date: 1970
Description: Poster proclaming "Gay Liberation Loves you Very Much". Indicates that a meeting is held every Wednesday evening at 8:00 pm a the St. Francis House, locate...
Poster

Judy Greenspan for School Board

Date: 1973
Description: Poster promoting Judy Greenspan for school board. Her platform includes: passage of the high school bill of rights, an end to discriminatory practices agai...
Poster

Come Out Together

Date: 1971
Description: Poster for dance, to be held at 10 Langdon Street, sponsored by the Gay Liberation Front. Includes the symbols of Mars, the symbol for a male organism or m...
Poster

Lesbians Call To Action Poster

Date: 1972
Description: Poster calling for the urgent need for gay women to become actively involved with the feminist movement. Illustration depicts three women arm in arm. The e...

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