The Daily Bulletin Archive

Gender Expressions is the final exhibition in this semester’s series featuring the Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive, sponsored by Butler Library's Archives and Special Collections and the LGBTQ+ Resource Center.

This exhibit, featuring gender expression groups such as the Radical Faeries and the African American Ball Culture, will be on display through Friday, May 10, in the Student Union third-floor exhibit case. The photographs were generously donated to the Buffalo State Archives and Special Collections’ Madeline Davis LGBTQ Archive of Western New York and are available to faculty, students, and researchers. A full inventory of the collection can be found online.

Gender Identity vs. Gender Expression
Gender identity is internal. It is, quite simply, the gender with which a person identifies. It’s the word (or words) that people use to define themselves that simply make sense to them.

Gender expression, on the other hand, is the way in which a person expresses their gender. It is what everyone around us can see. A person may identify as a woman and dress in a traditionally feminine way. A person may identify as a woman and dress in a traditionally masculine way. The point is that the two are not necessarily related.

For more information about the LGBTQ+ Resource Center please visit our website.

----------------------------------------

About the Madeline Davis LGBTQ+ Archive of Western New York
In 2001, noted gay rights activist Madeline Davis founded the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Archives of Western New York as a way to collect, safeguard, and provide access to materials that document the LGBTQ+ communities of Western New York and Southern Ontario.

In 2009, the archives were transferred to Buffalo State’s E. H. Butler Library. Housed in the Archives and Special Collections, the archives have expanded to more than 300 linear feet of items and have become the region’s largest LGBTQ+ collection. More than 80 individuals, groups, and diverse organizations are represented in the tens of thousands of documents and items that include photographs, local organizational records, multimedia materials, pamphlets, posters, clippings, awards, signs, banners, plaques, and published materials as well as an array of ephemeral items and other pieces that date back to the 1920s.