Browse Exhibits (2 total)
Big Mama Rag Exhibit
Big Mama Rag (BMR) was a lesbian feminist newspaper from 1972 - 1984 started in Denver, Colorado during the height of the civil rights movement of the late 20th century. The woman loving woman owned newspaper concentrated on a mix of art, poetry, original stories, and a world wide focus on women's liberation and feminist activsm, news, and local issues. The newspaper started in the basement of a house in north Capitol Hill near York and Colfax and went through several cycles of membership before winning the "Big Mama Rag v. United States" case in 1984. It was run as a collective with many members creating women's owned businesses to support the work. This exhibit links oral histories, photographs, and outside resources talking about the history of BMR.
Queering Denver: Queer Womxn Spaces in the 1970s and Jennifer Hathaway
This exhibit is a collaboration between Jennifer Hathaway and the Colorado LGBTQ+ History Project. This exhibit will show womxn owned spaces in Denver from 1974-1980. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), we used sources through Colorado Historic Newspapers.
We used Big Mama Rag, a lesbian feminist newspaper from 1974-1984, and Out Front Magazine, an LGBTQ newspaper from 1976-1984 to find spaces, businesses, and events related to the community of women loving women in Denver county. This helps support Jennifer's work from 2023.
This exhibit will offer a map of these spaces, primary source base for women loving women history from 1974-1984 in Big Mama Rag, and it will offer connections to oral histories and sources for Big Mama Rag.