The Rainbow Dialogues dialogue title and a brief description are given below. Each dialogue will be interactive with the audience. Audience participation is expected. There will be time for Q & A after each dialogue.
To see Survey of Contents/Finding Aides for Dialogue collections
Go to http://shoulderstostandonblog.org/Home/?cat=148
Look for collection number and title
Dialogue Descriptions
Dialogue Breakout Session 1 11:00am – Noon
1 Stonewall – The UprisingFacilitator: Dr. Barbara LeSavoy
Dr. Tamar Carroll
No one expected it – no one planned it. On June 28, 1969, “Why don’t you do something about it?” , the verbal challenge yelled by a patron of the Stonewall Inn that was being arrested and hit over the head with a billy club, began a riot over six days of skirmishes between young gay, lesbian, and transgender individuals and the New York Police Department on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village. The Stonewall Riots are considered to constitute the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
Hear first hand accounts. See media reports. Participate in History
Possible Collections To Use:
28 Shoulders To Stand On Documentary
34 Magazine Serial Collections
Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History Digital Collection https://digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu/ur/rochester-new-york-voices-lgbt-history-project
Audio Recordings: Bob Crystal, Patty, Robert Harris
Video Interviews: Bob Crystal, Patti Evans
2 LGBTQ and RPL Local History and Genealogy Division Archive Tour
Guide: Christine Ridarsky, City Historian
Brandon Fess, Librarian/Archivist
This tour will take you into the “inner sanctum” where the archives are stored. The RPL Local History and Genealogy Division is the permanent repository for many local Rochester LGBTQ collections deeded to the Central Library Archives by the Out Alliance. The Out Alliance has received the collections from individual Rochestarians and local organizations. Some of these collections will be available for viewing. You will also learn what the process is for acquisition, archiving and preserving collections received from community members and other sources. You will also see how a variety of ephemera is archived and preserved. Finally, a Finding Aide for a collection will be shared to show the background and detail required to create a research tool.
Dialogue Breakout Session 2 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
3 Gay Liberation Fronts – Rochester & Upstate New York
Facilitator: Tim Judd
Gerry Szymanski
The immediate result of the Stonewall Riots in 1968, was the creation of hundreds of Gay Liberation Front (GLF) organizations around the country primarily on college campuses. GLF organizations were interested in much more than rights, they advocated for direct action against the system to tear down restrictive sex roles and bring about the liberation of all oppressed people. Focusing on the Rochester, NY Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester, currently known as the Out Alliance, you will hear from original members about their activities, programs, and growing pains.
Hear the GLF members Experience the Speakers Bureau Raise Your Own Voice
Possible Collections To Use:
9 Empty Closet Photograph Collection
11 Green Thursday Tapes 1972-1974 – Radio Program on WCMF
32 Whitey LeBlanc
35 Tim Judd
Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History Digital Collection https://digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu/ur/rochester-new-york-voices-lgbt-history-project
Audio Recordings: Bill Giancursio, Bob Crystal, Liz Bell, Larry Fine, Karen
Hagberg, Michael Robertson, Pam Barrale, Ramona Santorelli,
Green Thursday Radio Broadcast
Video recordings: Larry Fine, Mark Hull, Michael Robertson, Patti Evans, Karen
Hagberg, RJ Alcala, Bill Giancursio, Bob Crystal, Bruce Jewel,
John Grace & Nelson Baldo, Whitey LeBlanc
Dialogue Breakout Session 2 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
3 Gay Liberation Fronts – Rochester & Upstate New York
Facilitator: Tim Judd
Gerry Szymanski
The immediate result of the Stonewall Riots in 1968, was the creation of hundreds of Gay Liberation Front (GLF) organizations around the country primarily on college campuses. GLF organizations were interested in much more than rights, they advocated for direct action against the system to tear down restrictive sex roles and bring about the liberation of all oppressed people. Focusing on the Rochester, NY Gay Liberation Front at the University of Rochester, currently known as the Out Alliance, you will hear from original members about their activities, programs, and growing pains.
Hear the GLF members Experience the Speakers Bureau Raise Your Own Voice
Possible Collections To Use:
9 Empty Closet Photograph Collection
11 Green Thursday Tapes 1972-1974 – Radio Program on WCMF
32 Whitey LeBlanc
35 Tim Judd
Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History Digital Collection https://digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu/ur/rochester-new-york-voices-lgbt-history-project
Audio Recordings: Bill Giancursio, Bob Crystal, Liz Bell, Larry Fine, Karen
Hagberg, Michael Robertson, Pam Barrale, Ramona Santorelli,
Green Thursday Radio Broadcast
Video recordings: Larry Fine, Mark Hull, Michael Robertson, Patti Evans, Karen
Hagberg, RJ Alcala, Bill Giancursio, Bob Crystal, Bruce Jewel,
John Grace & Nelson Baldo, Whitey LeBlanc
4 Stonewall@50 Exhibit and Archive Tour
Stonewall@50 Exhibit – Guided Tour
Guide: Christine Ridarsky, City Historian
This exhibition is a large scale exhibit to celebrate a product of new scholarship and to commemorate the Stonewall uprising in June, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn, identified as the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement, and to explore the history of LGBTQ+ ommunities in Rochester. Above all, this exhibition sheds light on the hardships and ultimate triumphs of the LGBT community.
Archives of the RPL Local History and Genealogy Division Tour
Guide: Librarian/Archivist Brandon Fess
Observe the historical archiving process from beginning to end. See how the “raw” Material is accepted, processed, and archived. Each step will be explained, and through the exhibition you will see how the final product is created and displayed. Some LGBTQ collections, not included in the exhibit will be available for attendees to look at.
Plenary Panel Discussion 2:15 pm – 3:15pm
5 The Legacy of Stonewall
Facilitator: Bek Orr
Anna Vernacchio
Stonewall is widely seen as an important turning point to more outspoken and confrontational forms of gay rights advocacy. Over the past 50 years, the LGBT community has made tremendous strides toward greater societal inclusion and equality. Perhaps the most visible and widely publicized legacy of Stonewall is the establishment of “pride parades” originally known as “gay pride marches”. The grassroots organizing that followed the Stonewall Uprising created a visible reminder that our fight for equality and justice is ongoing and that our challenge is to work with other liberation movements and activists to successfully end the discrimination our diverse communities experience today.
Hear todays activists share their stories What are the Liberation Issues of today
Panel: Rowan Collins
Possible Collections To Use:
Empty Closet Photograph Collection
9 Sue Cowell
23 Kathy Reilly
20 Karen Monast
10 Joan Guiffre
11 Green Thursday Tapes,
15 Lambda Kodak,
35 Tim Judd
Rochester, NY Voices of LGBT History Digital Collection https://digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu/ur/rochester-new-york-voices-lgbt-history-project
2019 Anthony Mascioli Rainbow Dialogues Special Event Stonewall 1969 to the Present
March 2, 2019 Little Theater 2
50th Anniversary of Stonewall FREE Film Screening with ImageOut
Sponsored by Trillium Health
6pm – 7:30pm Film – 1985
Director: Yen Tan
Producer: Asch Christian Hutch
Set in Texas in 1985, the film stars Cory Michael Smith as Adrian Lester, a closeted gay man returning home after several years living in New York City to tell his family that he is dying of AIDS.[2] The cast also includes Michael Chiklis and Virginia Madsen as Adrian’s parents, Aidan Langford as his younger brother Andrew, and Jamie Chung as his childhood friend Carly.
7:30pm – 8:15pm – Discussion To Follow