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Rick Gerharter Photographs Collection
Rick Gerharter is a San Francisco-based free-lance photojournalist. This collection of images was selected by the artist and documents activities in San Francisco's LGBT community from 1988 through mid-1995. Many photos were taken while on assignment for the Bay Area Reporter and capture the intensity and emotion of many facets of queer life, including AIDS activism, celebration, care-giving, sports, and visibility.
- still image (26)
- Photographs (26)
- AIDS activists (7)
- AIDS vaccines (1)
- Anti-LGBTQ+ violence (1)
- Anti-gay violence (1)
- Anti-war demonstrations (1)
- Arrests of LGBTQ+ people (1)
- Asian American gays (1)
- Bears (Gay culture) (1)
- Block parties (2)
- Bondage (Sexual behavior) (1)
- Buddhist gays (1)
- Buddhist temples (1)
- Cable cars (Streetcars) (1)
- Care (1)
- Caregivers (1)
- Chinese New Year (1)
- Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday) (1)
- Civil disobedience (2)
- Civil rights demonstrations (5)
- Curriculum change (1)
- Curriculum planning (1)
- Demonstrations (5)
- Discrimination against gays (1)
- Don't ask, don't tell (Military personnel policy) (1)
- Dykes (1)
- Dykes on Bikes (1)
- Fairs (1)
- Fat Dykes From Hell (1)
- Federal Building (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Gay Bars (1)
- Gay activists (13)
- Gay and lesbian dance parties (1)
- Gay athletes (1)
- Gay bars (1)
- Gay couples (1)
- Gay men (1)
- Gay motorcycle clubs (1)
- Gay pride celebrations (3)
- Gay pride parades (3)
- Gay rights (9)
- Gay students (1)
- Gay teachers (1)
- Gay-straight alliances in schools (1)
- Gays -- Violence against (1)
- Government policy (5)
- HIV-positive persons (1)
- Homosexuality and education (1)
- LGBTQ+ students' clubs (1)
- Leather bars (1)
- Leather community (1)
- Leather lifestyle (1)
- Leather women (1)
- Leathermen (1)
- Lesbian activists (2)
- Lesbian political activists (1)
- Lesbian political groups (1)
- Lesbian students (1)
- Lesbians (2)
- Lesbians in motion pictures (1)
- Marches (1)
- Marches (Demonstrations) (2)
- Meditation (1)
- Motorcycles (1)
- Nurses (1)
- Parades (2)
- Parents of gay men (1)
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 (1)
- Police crackdowns (1)
- Queer activism (2)
- Safe sex in AIDS prevention (1)
- Safer sex (1)
- School elections (1)
- Softball players (1)
- Tenderloin (San Francisco, Calif.) (1)
- Transgender bars (1)
- Transgender people (1)
- Vigils (2)
- Queer Nation (Organization) (2)
- San Francisco Unified School District (2)
- Stop AIDS Now! (Organization) (2)
- ACT UP Golden Gate (Organization) (1)
- ACT UP San Francisco (Organization) (1)
- AIDS Action Pledge (Organization) (1)
- Capital Christian Center (1)
- Gay Asian Pacific Alliance (GAPA) (1)
- Hartford Street Zen Center (1)
- Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) (1)
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Department of Public Health (1)
- San Francisco Eagle Bar (1)
- San Francisco General Hospital (Calif.) (1)