“HIV/AIDS in Dallas: An Abridged History of the Fight for Care” is a minidocumentary by Zane Buresh. The film explores the emergence and growth of an infamously deadly disease that devastated America’s gay community in the 1980s, particularly in Dallas.

Zines are very important to queer history and counterculture in general. In this project, we examine how queer identity has been expressed through zine culture and take a look at how Southern queer folk were able to express themselves through this medium.

From 1979 to 1992, Little Feather Productions, an entirely volunteer-run concert promotion group, brought women’s music performers to DFW.

This exhibition documents and visually maps out the history of enumerated lesbian nightlife presence in downtown Austin, Texas, from the early 1960s to 2008.

This is a project geared toward kids and families to learn about queer history. Kids can participate in activities, learn history and earn badges.

Queer people are everywhere — tech included. Yet we often tend to think of queer history and tech history as two separate fields. We had Alan Turing, and then what?

Our project focuses on the Dallas 1992 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and aims to analyze its impact. We will start by examining the state of film in the late ’80s and early ’90s then move on to the inaugural festival in 1990. Lastly, we provide an overview of the 1992 festival and explore its…

Founded in January 1994 by Dr. Chwee-Lye Chng, the Dragonflies of Dallas is a gay Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) support group. This exhibit displays snapshots into the Dragonflies’ lived experiences with one another as a family.

Aaron Henry was a prominent civil rights activist. He is well known for being the head of the NAACP’s Mississippi branch. This exhibit shows how his struggle with civil rights also intertwined with his queer sexuality.

Our project discusses the lives and legacies of Frances Thompson and Lizzie Montgomery, two Black transgender women, and Ellis Glenn, a white gender-bending individual, who were each uniquely targeted by local newspapers for their gender identities and/or presentation between the years 1866 to 1899.