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Lavender Line: Online Sources

Queensborough Celebrates LGBTQ Pride in Queens

Queens Museum Lavender Line Exhibit

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Lavender Line at the QCC Art Gallery

Ed Sederbaum

Ed Sederbaum, founder of the activist organization Queens Gays and Lesbians United (Q-GLU), speaks at a 1995 rally for justice for Julio Rivera, a gay Queens resident beaten to death in a Jackson Heights schoolyard in 1990. The Rivera murder, designated a hate crime, sparked a wave of LGBTQ activism in Queens in the early 1990s.

The Queens Lesbian & Gay Pride Committee

The Queens Lesbian & Gay Pride Committee prepares to march in the Queens Hispanic Parade in 1993. The committee, founded in 1992 by Daniel Dromm and Maritza Martinez, organized the parade to promote pride and awareness and fight for social justice in the wake of the 1990 murder of Julio Rivera and the 1992 rejection of the Children of the Rainbow Curriculum in local schools. Photograph by Daniel Dromm.

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