Seattle Freedom Day Committee poster, 1995. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee poster, 1993. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee 1991 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee 1990 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee 1987 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee 1987 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Lesbian/Gay Pride Festival 1986 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee 1986 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Seattle Freedom Day Committee 1985 poster. Courtesy of Chris Smith.
Timed for release as the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, this exhibit builds on Marc Stein's Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s, published in March 2026 by the University of Chicago Press. Published originally on…
An exhibit on Annette, an Idaho transwoman who was featured in Tranvestia magazine and was at the center of a Pacific Northwest trans social network in the 1960s. Published originally on OutHistory in April 2024.
Dr. John Money, 1995. Wikimedia Commons.
Harry Benjamin, The Transsexual Phenomenon: A Scientific Report on Transsexualism and Sex Conversion in the Human Male and Female (Julian Press, 1966).
Dr. Harry Benjamin, 1913. Wikimedia Commons.
Elmer Belt, second from left, as California Governor Earl Warren signs an Appropriations Bill to fund the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, 1946.
Gladys Bentley posing in housewife attire, holding an album of old pictures of herself in drag, from “I Am A Woman Again,” Ebony, August 1952, 92.
Gladys Bentley performing housewife duties, from “I Am A Woman Again,” Ebony, August 1952, 93.
A postcard featuring a portrait of Gladys Bentley, 1946-1949. Wikimedia Commons.