Special Exhibitions
Presenting artifacts from LGBT religious history in thematic exhibitions.
These exhibitions present artifacts from LGBT religious collections
in digital format and organized as you might see in a museum or library. Each
exhibition explores a particular subject of LGBT religious history and includes
diverse artifacts, such as photos, articles, correspondence, documents and audio
or video clips, that have been found in archives. In its ongoing efforts to make
original source materials on LGBT religious history widely accessible to students,
researchers and other interested persons, LGBT-RAN invites collaboration with
other groups to create additional exhibitions.
Portrays the formative years (1964-68) of this ground-breaking coalition of clergy
and lesbian & gay activists in San Francisco. Created in collaboration with the
LGBT Historical Society.
Presents the first ordination of an openly gay person in mainline Protestant Christianity in the U.S.: William R. Johnson ordained by the Golden Gate Association of the United Church of Christ on June 25, 1972. Would you contribute an artifact or memory to this interactive exhibition?
Explores the early history of the world's largest LGBT synagogue located in New York City.
Created in collaboration with Congregation Beth Simchat Torah. (This is exhibition is partially completed.)
Explores the history and life of one of the first LGBT ministries within a church in the United States. (This is exhibition is partially completed.)
Presents pictures and stories of over 1,000 stoles and other liturgical items that
comprise the Shower of Stoles Project and that depict the ministries of LGBT persons.
Created in collaboration with the Institute of Welcoming Resources.
Shows a dozen early (1964-81) newsletters or articles that document the formation of a
diversity of LGBT religious groups or movements.