Tucson Gay Museum

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Tucson Gay Museum, Tucson LGBTQ+ Museum, aka Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum
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EstablishedJune 10,1967
LocationVirtual Online and Traveling Mobile LGBTQ+ Exhibits
Websitewww.tucsongaymuseum.org
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The Tucson Gay Museum was the worlds first All Virtual Online Gay/LGBTQ+ Museum, later a.k.a. the Tucson LGBTQ+ Museum and Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum, is a United States minority group museum with tens of thousands of original historical items in its collections Tucson, Arizona which collects, preserves, archives and virtually exhibits the LGBTQ+ history of the Arizona along with some historical collections from other states.[1] Within the Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum's extensive comprehensive original one-of a kind exhibits and collections include the Tucson Gay Museum and the Phoenix Gay Museum collections of priceless original regional Tucson, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Yuma and Arizona LGBTQ+ history as well as LGBTQ+ and other exhibits of national and international scope.[2] The Tucson Gay Museum aka Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum collaborates under many pre-existing agreements with numerous archives and museums throughout the United States and Worldwide.

History[]

The Tucson Gay Museum effort began on June 10, 1967, as a Gay (LGBTQ+) history archiving project when a few local Tucson, Arizona neighborhood school age boys came together in one of their families garages to collect local LGBTQ+ historical items, take and collect LGBTQ+ photographs of the people places and events of their time period and the ones before them, collect LGBTQ+ event and organizations posters and flyers, gather and save Gay & Lesbian publications, make sound recordings in and around their community of LGBTQ+ events, people, and those related subjects along with other LGBTQ+ historical items. Soon the group of young men found themselves collecting LGBTQ+ historical related exhibit items from all around Arizona, including Phoenix Tucson and other cities in Arizona later expanding to LGBTQ+ historical archives collections of some major cities of other states within the United States including those of Alaska California Hawaii Texas Washington State and Washington D.C.

The archives collections include original photographs and records from the 1950's to 2020's chronicling the beginnings of Phoenix and Tucson Gay & Lesbian (LGBTQ+) businesses, organizations, bars, bar owners, Drag Queen Performers, original and later 'Gay' Pride celebrations parades efforts and events, Anti-Gay Hate Crimes & Murders, protests, Community Centers, Youth Groups, AIDS Organizations, Business Leagues, and the many people who made up those LGBTQ+ Communities.

The Tucson Gay Museum is now one of a number of LGBTQ+ museums and historical archives collections within the Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum and still remains the oldest and the only all-volunteer surviving Gay (LGBTQ+) 1967 effort in Tucson and Arizona as its founders originally chartered into its organization in the summer of 1967. The founding members used their own funds and film loaded cameras often chemically developing the film at home in their early days of collecting, photographing, in time later movie camera filming, and archiving historical items and memorabilia to create historical exhibits since the summer of 1967.[3]

Over the succeeding years since those legendary, sometimes violent, and often very turbulent Gay Lesbian LGBTQ+ historical decades of the 1960s 1970's 1980's 1990's and after in Phoenix, Tucson, other Arizona communities and around the United States and beyond, the museum's historical preservation project gained broader focuses at times including the production of LGBTQ+ related historical video and movie documentaries, an LGBTQ+ related TV Show 'OutWest', sponsoring Tucson and Phoenix LGBTQ+ events, providing educational exhibits at Tucson and Phoenix LGBTQ+ related and other events, working with local and national LGBTQ+ organizations, fielding LGBTQ+ historical documentary audio/visual field crews, working with national and international LGBTQ+ historical groups in LGBTQ+ historical preservation and in the startup of their efforts. During the 2020 COVID Pandemic the Tucson Gay Museum purchased and freely distributed over 4,000 locally made protective masks to Tucson's AIDS Prevention Organizations, local LGBTQ+ Youth Groups, Straight Youth Groups, homeless shelters, front line health care, police, fire, grocery store, merchandise store, and other workers. The Tucson Gay Museum was the Worlds First All Virtual LGBTQ+ Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Queer Museum.

Traveling Phoenix Tucson LGBTQ+ Memories Project And Related Exhibits[]

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 and state groups, and various other venues. Some of the Tucson LGBTQ+ Memories Project's traveling mobile historical exhibits displays include:

  • Tucson LGBTQ+ Memories Project[4]
  • Memorium Wall of Remembrance[5]
  • Tucson Gay Hate Crimes Murder Victims Memorial Project[6]
  • Phoenix AIDS Service Groups History Exhibits
  • Phoenix Gay & Lesbian Bars History Exhibits
  • Phoenix Pride Events & Organizations History Exhibits
  • Phoenix LGBTQ+ Organizations History
  • Phoenix LGBTQ+ Places Memorial Project Exhibits
  • Tucson AIDS Service Groups History Exhibits
  • Tucson Gay & Lesbian Bars History Exhibits
  • Tucson Pride Events & Organizations History Exhibits
  • Tucson LGBTQ+ Organizations History
  • Tucson Gay Hate Crime Murders Memorium Exhibits(1970's-2014)
  • Tucson LGBTQ+ Places Memorial Project Exhibits

References[]

  1. ^ "Tucson Gay Museum | Museums". Tucson Weekly. 2012-05-18. Retrieved 2013-12-05.
  2. ^ "In The Aggregate - Arizona's political blogs » 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.
  4. ^ "Tucson Gay Museum". www.facebook.com.
  5. ^ "Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum -Tucson Gay Museum|Memorium Wall Names List Special Exhibit". tucsongaymuseum.org.
  6. ^ St, Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily. "All Souls Procession". Arizona Daily Star.

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