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Gay rights rally at Westlake Mall, Seattle, June 25, 1977
On June 25, 1977, over 2000 people marched from Pioneer Square to Westlake Mall in support of gay rights, marking the beginning of the first official Gay Pride Week in Seattle, as declared by Mayor Wes Uhlman. The Washington Coalition for Sexual Minority Rights organized the march, which was supported by 60 other organizations, including the Washington Federation of Teachers…
ID Number:1986.5.55086.8
Date:1977
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Bernie Whitebear, Seattle, 1971
Bernie Whitebear was born in the town of Nespelem on the Colville Reservation in 1937. After growing up in poverty on the reservation, he moved to Western Washington in 1955 and shortly became a fisherman on the Puyallup River. In the late 1950s, Bernie Whitebear joined a campaign of activism to protect Native fishing rights, which had been guaranteed by…
ID Number:1986.5.55140.1
Date:1971
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Wayne Blakely working on an AIDS quilt, November 29, 1991
In November 1991, the Washington Trade and Convention Center in Seattle hosted a display of a portion of the NAMES project AIDS quilt. Begun in San Francisco in 1987, the quilt had grown from 3,400 to 14,000 panels since it had last visited Seattle in 1988. A number of new panels, created locally, were to be dedicated at the closing…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.01
Date:1991
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Needle exchange table, Seattle, October 24, 1990
This table at Second Avenue and Pike Street in Seattle was part of a program to educate and help prevent the spread of AIDS. The program handed out clean needles as well as condoms, AIDS informational brochures and bleach to disinfect needles. In this image, a woman exchanges a needle while one volunteer records the exchange and another hands out…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.03
Date:1990
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Men embracing at AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, May 29, 1988
In this image four friends comfort each other at the Vigil for AIDS held at Seattle Central Community College. Behind them is a candle-lit shrine commemorating people who have died of AIDS. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.06
Date:1988
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Two men embracing at AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, May 29, 1988
In this image, two friends comfort each other at the Vigil for AIDS held on the campus of Seattle Central Community College. Next to them is a candle-lit shrine commemorating people who have died of AIDS. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.07
Date:1988
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Man working on quilt square during AIDS vigil at Seattle Central Community College, Seattle, May 29, 1988
In this image, Dale Inman of Seattle works on a quilt square in honor a friend who died of AIDS, at the AIDS Vigil at Seattle Central Community College. The square will become part of the NAMES project AIDS Memorial quilt. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached to the back of the photograph.
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.08
Date:1988
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Protest against forced AIDS testing, Seattle, June 21, 1988
In June 1988, about two dozen people protested forced AIDS testing outside the King County Courthouse. This image shows members of the Stonewall Committee for Lesbian/Gay Rights at that event, picketing in protest of a court order requiring testing of Steven Farmer, a convicted sex offender, against his will. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and attached…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.09
Date:1988
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Visitors viewing the NAMES Project Quilt, Seattle, July 25, 1988
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt came to the Seattle Center Arena as part of a 20-city tour in 1988. In this image, Craig Koball and Celia Cavalli embrace during their visit to the quilt. Washington residents added 50 more 3 x 6 foot panels during the exhibit's closing ceremonies. Caption information derived from captions written by Post-Intelligencer staff and…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.10
Date:1988
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Covered sculpture in downtown Seattle on "Day Without Art," December 1, 1989
"Day Without Art," a project of the arts organization Visual AIDS, launched on December 1, 1989 as "a day of action and mourning" in which thousands of arts institutions and organizations around the world joined together to demonstrate the power of art to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS pandemic. In this image Luis Clark, groundskeeper for the 1001 Building…
ID Number:2000.107.001.06.11
Date:1989