Item no. 24011
| 1995 |
| New York |
| Collection: Private |
Domestic partners and their daughter at New York City's 1995 Labor Day parade. The photograph symbolizes the acceptance of domestic partnership and same-sex relationships as part of the overall effort to include sexual orientation as one of the criteria in measuring equality of rights.
Marchers Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb co-authored Pride at Work: Organizing for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Unions, a bargaining guide published in 1990 to raise lesbian-gay consciousness in unions and union consciousness in the gay and lesbian community.
Image from Frank/Holcomb private collection, photograph by Dorothee Benz.
See this image in the Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives exhibit.
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