Hooray for June and National Pride Month!
We’ve rounded up some articles, lists and ideas about museums and the LGBTQIA+ community. Since this is not a comprehensive listing we invite you to send us your additions.
Museums and Archives
Pride: “10 Incredible Museums and Archives that are Preserving LGBT History” by Cassie Sheets
Online Museum Exhibitions
GLBT Historical Society Archives and Museum
“Passionate Struggle: Dynamics of San Francisco’s GLBT History
“Lineage: Matchmaking the Archives”
“Dykes on Bikes: 30 Years at the Forefront”
“Outranks: GLBT Military Service from World War II to the Iraq War”
“Council on Religion and the Homosexual”
Articles
Queering the Museum: “Museum Pride: The Social Role of Museums in LGBT Advocacy”
Museum Next: “How Museums Can Expand Narratives with LGBT Interpretation”
Listen to Susan Ferentions' 2015 lecture about ways that museums might begin thinking about expanding their interpretation to include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) stories.
Smithsonian Magazine: “What It Took to Create the World’s First Gay Art Museum”
American Museum of History: “Better Gay Than Grumpy”
The Guardian; “Queer Britain museum: ‘an overdue resource’”
Programming Ideas
Museums With Pride
San Francisco museums united for the annual Pride Parade
#museumswithpride
Science Museum of Minnesota
Social Science: Pride
Have a ball with your local queer community organizations and advocates. Join in activities that will encourage you to work and laugh together while you explore the science of sexuality, drag, rainbows and refraction, and more.
History Tour at Oakland Museum of California
California Academy of Sciences Pride Night
Films at the Bellevue Arts Museum
Living Computer Museum and Labs Screening of “Gaming in Color”
Art Newspaper's Round up of activities at US and Canadian museums last year
Resources
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