Tucson Gay Museum

The Tucson Gay Museum effort began on June 10, 1967, as a Gay Lesbian history archiving project when a few local Tucson, Arizona neighborhood school age boys came together in one of their families garages to collect local Gay Lesbian historical items, take and collect photographs of the people places and events of their time period and the ones before them, collect event and organizations posters, flyers and other items, gather and save Gay & Lesbian publications, make sound recordings in and around their community of the events, people, and those related subjects along with other historical items. Soon the group of young men found themselves collecting Gay Lesbian historical related exhibit items from all around Arizona, including Phoenix Tucson and other cities in Arizona later expanding to historical archives collections of some major cities of other states within the United States including those of Alaska California Hawaii Texas Washington State and Washington D.C.

The archives collections original photographs and archival records from the 1940's to 2020's chronicle the beginnings of Phoenix and Tucson Gay & Lesbian businesses, organizations, bars, bar owners, Drag Queen Performers, original and later 'Gay' Pride celebrations parades efforts marches and events, Anti-Gay Hate Crimes & Murders, protests, Community Centers, Youth Groups, AIDS Organizations, Business Leagues, and the many people who made up those Communities.

The Tucson Gay Museum is currently one of the museums and historical archives collections within the Arizona LGBTQ+ Museum.

Over the succeeding years the museum's historical preservation project gained broader focuses at times including the production of LGBTQ+ related historical video and movie documentaries.

The Tucson LGBTQ+ ( Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Queer + Memories Project ) maintains various traveling historical exhibits displays which have been exhibited in locations such as Tucson, Phoenix, the University of Arizona, Washington D.C., The National LGBTQ Museum , local and state groups, and various other venues. Some of the Tucson LGBTQ+ Memories Project's traveling mobile historical exhibits displays include:

• Tucson LGBTQ+ Memories Project[2]
• Memorium Wall of Remembrance[3]
• Tucson Gay Hate Crimes Murder Victims Memorial Project[4]
• Phoenix AIDS Service Groups History Exhibits
• Phoenix Gay & Lesbian Bars History Exhibits
• Phoenix Gay Hate Crime Murders Memorium Exhibits 1970's-2000's
• Phoenix Pride Events & Organizations History Exhibits
• Phoenix LGBTQ+ Organizations History
• Phoenix LGBTQ+ Places Memorial Project Exhibits
• Tucson AIDS Service Groups History Exhibits
• Tucson Gay & Lesbian Bars History Exhibits
• Tucson Pride Events & Organizations History Exhibits
• Tucson LGBTQ+ Organizations History
• Tucson Gay Hate Crime Murders Memorium Exhibits(1970's-2014)
• Tucson LGBTQ+ Memorial Project Exhibits

• Official website