About This Exhibit

According to the original Michigan's LGBT Heritage website (1999):

"The exhibit, "Artifacts & Disclosures: Michigan's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Heritage" represents the convergence of two dynamics: a desire of the Lavender Information and LIbrary Association to stage an exhibit to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, and the wish of the curators to assemble and share some wondrous artifacts which disclose an aspect of the state's history that has just begun to be revealed.

Drawing fragmentary evidence from repositories both local and national, we attempted to create a sort of giant scrapbook of Michigan LGBT life modeled after the pioneering 1994 New York Public LIbrary exhibit, "Becoming Visible: The Legacy of Stonewall." We hope we succeeded in documenting the diversity, complexity, and longevity of our various communities."

Thank you to the original curators and developers of the Michigan's LGBT Heritage exhibit. These people include:

Tim Retzloff, Julie Herrada, Matthew Bietz, and Anthony Hand.

Others who have made this exhibit possible include:

Elizabeth and Stephen Bollinger, Pat Anderson, Tom Champagne, Scott Dennis, Suzanne Gray, Steve Savage, and Kelly Webster. The Lavender Information and Library Association, the University of Michigan Library Exhibits committee, the Library Diversity Committee, and the Bentley Historical Library. 

Of course, this exhibit would not be what it is without the generous contribution of images from established collections, individuals, and various copyright holders.

"Artifacts and Disclosures" is dedicated to Edward Weber, curator of the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan from 1960 to 2000, and Anne Tracy, LGBT bibliographer and library assistant with Michigan State University Libraries since 1969. For over seventy cumulative years, Edward and Anne have devoted themsleves to preserving the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history displayed in this exhibit."