Tucson LGBTQ Museum

The Tucson Gay Museum And Library is an effort whose mission is to collect, preserve, archive and virtually exhibit the histories of the LGBTQ History of Tucson, Arizona.[1] The Museum And Library exhibits and collections include regional LGBTQ history as well as items of national and international scope.[2] The Tucson Gay Museum collaborates under pre-existing agreements with numerous archives and museums worldwide.

Tucson Gay LGBTQ Museum And Library
Established1967
LocationVirtual Online and Traveling Mobile Exhibits
Websitewww.tucsongaymuseum.org
Tucson LGBTQ Museum Logo

History

The Tucson Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Queer LGBTQ Museum And Library began on June 10, 1967, as an archiving project when a few local neighborhood school age boys came together to collect historical items, take photographs, make sound recordings in and around their community of LGBTQ events and subjects along with other history. As time when along the group began collecting LGBTQ historical related exhibit items from around Arizona, including Phoenix and others areas of the United States. The Tucson Gay LGBTQ Museum And Library still remains an all-volunteer effort. Its founding members used their own film loaded cameras and many developed their own film while collecting, photographing, filming, and archiving memorabilia to create historical exhibits for an almost continual 50 year time period.[3]

Over the years since those legendary historical days of the 1960s in the United States, the project gained broader focuses at times including the production of LGBTQ related historical movie documentaries, an LGBTQ related TV Show, sponsoring LGBTQ events, providing educational exhibits at events, working with local LGBTQ organizations, fielding LGBTQ historical documentary crews, and working with national and international LGBTQ historical groups on LGBTQ historical preservation. The Tucson Gay LGBTQ Museum And Library was the first virtual Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Queer Museum to open in the world.

Traveling Tucson LGBTQ Memories Project

The Tucson LGBTQ ( Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Queer Memories Project ) maintains various traveling historical exhibits displays which have been exhibited in locations such as Tucson, Phoenix, the University of Arizona, Washington D.C., The National LGBTQ Museum , local groups, and various other venues. The Tucson LGBTQ Memories Project's traveling mobile historical exhibits displays include:

References
  1. "Tucson Gay Museum | Museums". Tucson Weekly. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  2. "In The Aggregate - Arizona's political blogs ยป Arizona Conservative". Tucsoncitizen.com. Archived from the original on 2013-11-18. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  3. "Tucson Gay Museum - Google-profiel". Profiles.google.com. 2013-10-18. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
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