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LGBTQ Life in Iowa City, Iowa, 1967-2010

A timeline of events, pictures, and documents chronicling the evolution of LGBTQ life in Iowa City.

Profiles of Ten LGBT Activists for Social Justice, 2013/2017, by Rich Wilson

Profiles of ten LGBT social justice activists by Rich Wilson. First published December 10, 2013. Last edited: May 28, 2017.

Moreau de Saint-Méry and the "Unnatural Practices" of American Women, 1793-1798, by Jonathan Ned Katz

A French lawyer and politcian, Moreau de Saint Méry, who lived in the United States from 1793 to 1798, mostly in Philadelphia, provided one of the earliest comments on sex between women in the new American nation. First published on OutHistory in…

A Raisin in the Sun

The first edition of Raisin in the Sun, 1959. The play was partly autobiographical, and the first play by an African-American woman to open on Broadway.

Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry, playwright

The Ladder

A butch cruising a femme in Washington Square park, cover of The Ladder, April 1959.

Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965): A Museum Show and Opening the Archive, by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Kevin Mumford

An exhibit on the queer intersectionality of African American writer Lorraine Hansberry, focusing on a 2013-2014 museum exhibit, an overview of Hansberry's life and work, and copies of Hansberry's correspondence with The Ladder.

RVPM Nkoli Photo from Advocate

Photo of Nkoli appearing in an article titled "No Easy Walk to Freedom" in The Advocate, January 16, 1990

RVPM Kuromiya Photo two injured demonstrators

Photo showing two civil rights demonstrators injured by sheriff's possemen on March 16, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama

RVPM Kuromiya Photo Montgomery 1965 Man covering head

Photo of attack of sheriff's men on civil rights demonstrators, Montgomery, Alabama, 1965

RVPM Dill Title page Morals and Manners

Title page of Morals and Manners among Negro Americans coedited by WEB Dubois and Augustus Granville Dill