Gay Rights Demonstration Archive of 50 original 35 mm Film Slides, 1990-2000 by LGBTQ , Film Slides

[LGBTQ] Archive of 50 Gay Rights Demonstration Slides, 1990-2000. Each slide is a 35 mm Film Slide and measures 2" x 2". Many photographs were captured in San Francisco, Washington D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and Ohio. The 1990's were a period of intense activism as the gay rights movement mobilized in the face of the AIDS epidemic and discriminatory practices including "don't ask don't tell." In response to "Don't Ask Don't Tell", Amendment 2 in Colorado, rising hate crimes, and on-going discrimination against the LGBTQ community an estimated 800,000 to one million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation on April 25, 1993. As protests for gay marriage gained traction in the 90's, the conservative backlash was strong and decisive with the Defense of Marriage Act signed into law in 1996. It would be almost twenty years before same sex marriage became legal nationwide. These 35mm film slides document Gay protests all over the U.S. Some slides capture picketers around many cities in the United States, including Rochester, New York, rallying for and/or against homosexuality. One slide presents Captain Tanya Demi, a Lesbian soldier, as she holds a flag. Several slides capture the Soulforce Rally at Cleveland State University; in these slides many people sport T-shirts and posters that read "Stop Spiritual Violence", "No exit without justice", whilst protesting against anti-gay protesters. Many slides capture the Soulforce Rally in Washington D.C., with participants boasting bold signs that read "Open wide the doors...Dignity or Discrimination?". Other slides capture gay and lesbian couples getting married in Annapolis and San Francisco. There is a slide that captures the National AIDS Day candlelight march in NYC, and many other slides are located in Rochester, New York, which capture a "protest against homosexual mass", where people carry signs that read "Bishop Clark: Love the homosexual with the truth". Each slide bears typed or penned captions of the images. All 35mm film slides are colorful, expressive, and are a powerful capsule of Gay history in the 1990's to 2000.