31 days, 31 role models

As part of GLBT History Month, the Equality Forum created a video with a segment for each day of October that focuses on a GLBT person who is an icon or role model because of the contributions they have made to their field or the promotion of GLBT civil rights. A short video shows below, and you can find a biographical statement about each icon on the GLBT History Month website.

Que Queer! - The San Antonio LGBT Community

At the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center thru September 2007

A celebration of the heritage and history of our San Antonio lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two Spirit, transgender and queer communities through art, artifacts, ephemera, images and mementos.Aquí en San Antonio, we are taught to present images through filtered lenses. Lenses that hide who we really are, that erase our histories. We aren’t allowed to tell the true stories of what it means to live in San Antonio and be brown, black, working class, poor, female, queer…

As lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, Two-Spirits, transgender and other queer peoples, our stories and the images of our lives are made invisible. Pero aquí estamos. We are here and have been for generations. The lives of Queer people and communities are a part of the fabric of San Antonio. Our stories reside on every street, in every home, in every school, in every park, in every establishment.

To tell our stories out loud is a revolutionary act.

from the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center website