Exhibit
Vibrant Kin
Fifty Years of Activism: A Continuing Conversation
How did Cincinnati go from forbidding city government from protecting LGBTQ people to having the highest possible Municipal Equality Index score from Human Rights Coalition? … How did we come so far in just half a century? Not in a straight line.
A project of the Ohio Lesbian Archives, with thanks to Nancy Alli Yerian.
Design by Jesse Kramer. Funded by People’s Liberty.
Click a panel to read it. Each one is also available as a PDF.
Panel 1
Vibrant Kin
Introduction & a note about language
Panel 2
Lesbian Community Building
Dinah, Crazy Ladies Bookstore & the 1977 Human Rights Ordinance
Panel 2A
A Long Standing Community
Homophiles in the Midwest, gay liberation & Gay Pride 1973
Panel 3
Rude Awakening
Pride returns in 1978
Panel 4
Unprecedented Visibility
“Homosexuals: A Cincinnati Report”
Panel 5
Responding to a New Crisis
AIDS Volunteers of Cincinnati
Panel 6
AIDS Activism
Clippings from the AIDS crisis & the national vigil
Panel 7
Filling a Need
Hardship brings unity; Stonewall fights discrimination
Panel 8
March on Washington
1987 and a coalition for rights
Panel 9
Coalition for Rights, Cont.
The Human Rights Ordinance & the Issue 3 backlash
Panel 10
Resistance
Fighting Article XII & making space for community
Panel 11
Pride Returns (Again)
Boycott & Philecia Barnes’s lawsuit
Panel 12
Restoring Fairness
Repealing Article XII & the state marriage fight
Panel 13
State Defeat, Cont.
Local advances & Chris Seelbach on City Council
Panel 15
Battle for Healthcare
And the fight continues
The exhibit is “just the beginning of the conversation.” Join it by sharing your own memories and reactions.