We’re Becoming: LGBTQIA2S+ Resistance & Solidarity in Oregon, part of Love, Life, Resistance & Solidarity: Celebrating Oregon’s LGBTQIA2S+ History.

Name: We’re Becoming: LGBTQIA2S+ Resistance & Solidarity in Oregon, part of Love, Life, Resistance & Solidarity: Celebrating Oregon’s LGBTQIA2S+ History. — Oregon Queer History Collective
Start: 2025-07-26T15:30:00-0700
End: 2025-09-22T17:00:00-0700

Saturday, July 26, 2025 3:30 PM
Monday, September 22, 2025 5:00 PM

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On Display July 26th - September 22nd, 2025; Opening Reception Saturday, July 26th, 2025

3:30PM - 5:00PM | Multnomah County Central Library, Collins Gallery

Celebrate Oregon’s LGBTQIA2S+ History with Oregon Queer History Collective and the Portland City Archives at our exhibit, Love, Life, Resistance & Solidarity: Celebrating Oregon’s LGBTQIA2S+ History. Through community- and government-created documents, we showcase Oregon’s rich queer history in political activism, social change, and relationship building.

We’re Becoming: LGBTQIA2S+ Resistance & Solidarity in Oregon features historic and contemporary examples of queer life making. We present mixed materials curated as glimpses into lived and speculative connections and rebellion against oppressive systems. These social, political, and medical vignettes exist in conversation with, and at times in opposition to, government collected documents.

This exhibit shines a light on the urgent importance of community preservation, history, and archives, while elevating Oregonians’ voices. We also endeavored to employ language and terms that people used for themselves during their lives.