Voices Out Loud Project

The Voices Out Loud Project works to collect, share, and preserve East Tennessee’s LGBTQ+ history and culture. Let’s #MakeHistoryTogether.

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The Voices Out Loud presents the Voices Out Loud Official Group! Making history means making a community where we can talk about history together. Follow the link to join and #MakeHistoryTogether. https://t.co/t0HJANfUp4

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Check out some sound advice from a local activist here in Knoxville!
#lgbtqiahistory #lqbtqiapride #knoxpride #activism #itsokaytosaygay

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Feeling lonely this Valentines' Day....?

It is not a new phenomenon to not have a Valentine to show off around town when February 14th rolls around.

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The importance of intersectionality highlighted by Ali Heming 🌈🍊
#vol #LGBTQIA #queerhistory

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"Marginalized communities experience both the profoundly negative consequences of misrepresentation in mainstream media, but experience the positive effects of community-driven archives"
Who knew?
We did 😉

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"Marginalized communities experience both the profoundly negative consequences of misrepresentation in mainstream media, but experience the positive effects of community-driven archives"
Who knew?
We did 😉

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The importance of intersectionality highlighted by Ali Heming 🌈🍊
#vol #LGBTQIA #queerhistory

[Queer Indonesia Archive @QIArchive]

Dorce breathed her last breath on the 16/2/22.

She must not only be remembered because her role in history of pop culture, but also because Dorce’s life story is inseparable from the history of the LGBTIQ+ rights movement in Indonesia

By @nurdiyansah

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Zanele Muholi is best known for powerful portraiture: celebrating the lives of South Africa’s Black lesbian, gay, trans, queer and intersex communities.

Their work is part of @tate’s expansive archive of queer art, available to view online: https://t.co/sFxf2knmfS

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When Speech Is Forced Down, Art Must Speak is a new exhibition by Epiphania Visuals Gallery & Archive - the first Queer art gallery of Bangladesh.

Open daily until 3 April, MAC Arena Gallery, free entry.

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Feeling lonely this Valentines' Day....?

It is not a new phenomenon to not have a Valentine to show off around town when February 14th rolls around.

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"Suddenly, I did start to figure out that I wasn’t interested in the girls. I was interested in the boys. I didn’t know if that was a normal feeling. I thought 'Oh, maybe everybody thinks these things.'" Check out Chad Goldman's oral history at https://t.co/NVVy406Sz0

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Supporters and opponents of the Lesbian/Gay Pride Parade mingle downtown Saturday. From the Knoxville News Sentinel, 1991 in our history of #KnoxPride collection

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"Anne Hotchkiss, left, and Judith Petree line Gay Street in downtown Knoxville to show their support for the participants in Saturday's Gay Pride Parade." From our history of #knoxpride collection, 1997.

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#KnoxPride 1992. Knox gays, lesbians show 'True Colors' from the Knoxville News Sentinel

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Check out this article about 1994 #pride events from the Knoxville News Sentinel in our History of #KnoxPride collection!

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Check out the 1988 Knoxville Pride Guide from our History of Knoxville Pride collection featuring the #pride events in Knoxville from 1988!

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Today's #queerarchive feature is Canada's ArQuives, which has been collecting and preserving LGBTQ+ archives since 1973. Check them out at https://t.co/GXPfr1bu2G

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Fantastic news out of the Supreme Court today! #makinghistorytogether https://t.co/gX4HqFxatm