“Gay Rights Protest”

Contributor: Cecil Lockard, photographer
Coverage: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1984
Creator: Cecil Lockard, photographer
Date: March 9, 1984
Description: “GAY RIGHTS PROTEST: Student protestors covered their heads with grocery bags Friday, as they marched around campus to demonstrate for gay rights. Their hour-long protest was silent, but slogans on their bags proclaimed, ‘Let me out of the closet.’ The 12-member group briefly occupied the office of U-M President Harold T. Shapiro. Shapiro was out of town, but the protestors left a message: ‘We won't be silent anymore and we will be back.’ For more than a year, gay men and lesbians on campus have been pressuring U-M for a policy to prohibit discrimination against homosexuals” (Caption).
Format: Digital file containing duplication of print newspaper
Identifier: https://aadl.org/sites/default/files/photos/N124_0194_015.jpg
Language: English
Publisher: The Ann Arbor News archives, courtesy of oldnews.aadl.org
Relation: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Rights: The Ann Arbor News
Source: The Ann Arbor News
Subject: Gay, lesbian, LGBTQ
Title: “Gay Rights Protest”
Type: Newspaper photograph

History of LGBTQ-Related Protests at UM