Notes from Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting for Women
Main Title:
Notes from Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting for Women
Description:
Carmen Vázquez's notes from her trip to Nairobi, Kenya for Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting for Women.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
1985 July 4-July 18
Genre:
notes
Plaque from The Women's Building to Carmen Vázquez
Main Title:
Plaque from The Women's Building to Carmen Vázquez
Description:
Plaque presented to Carmen Vázquez by The Women's Building. Vázquez was director of The Women's Building from 1980 to 1984, and remained heavily involved until 1991.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
1980-1991
Genre:
plaques (flat objects)
Advocate's Award presented to Carmen Vázquez by the Public Advocate for the City of New York
Main Title:
Advocate's Award presented to Carmen Vázquez by the Public Advocate for the City of New York
Description:
In June 1998, on the 29th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion and during Lesbian Gay Pride Month, Mark Green, Public Advocate for the City of New York, presented Carmen Vázquez with the Advocate's Award for "exemplary leadership, commitment and advocacy on behalf of the lesbian and gay community and all New Yorkers."
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
1998 June
Genre:
awards
14th Annual Creating Change National Conference for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement program cover
Main Title:
14th Annual Creating Change National Conference for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement program cover
Description:
Cover of program for the 14th annual Creating Change National Conference for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Movement that took place November 7-11, 2001 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The conference was presented by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Foundation, which Carmen Vázquez was a board member of from 1990 to 1994. She encouraged her fellow task force members to consider broader economic justice as a relevant and important issue to the LGBTQ community.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
2001 November
Genre:
programs (documents)
Forum '85 The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting of Women program
Main Title:
Forum '85 The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting of Women program
Description:
Program cover for Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting for Women in Nairobi, Kenya from July 15-19, 1985. Loretta J. Ross, Nkenge Toure, and Carmen Vázquez all attended the third UN World Conference on Women.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
1985 July
Genre:
programs (documents)
Certificate of Appreciation from the Community Against Violence awarded to Carmen Vázquez
Main Title:
Certificate of Appreciation from the Community Against Violence awarded to Carmen Vázquez
Description:
On September 10, 1992, the Community Against Violence, a multicultural organization working to end violence against LGBTQ communities, presented Carmen Vázquez with a certificate of appreciation for her contributions.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
1992 September 10
Genre:
certificates
Proposal for Puerto Rican Butch Voices
Main Title:
Proposal for Puerto Rican Butch Voices
Description:
Carmen Vázquez's proposal for a book about Puerto Rican butch voices, written May 13, 1995. As a butch Puerto Rican herself, Vázquez wanted to explore her intersectionality and find other people like her.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
1995 May 13
Genre:
proposals
Proclamation of Carmen Vázquez Day in San Francisco
Main Title:
Proclamation of Carmen Vázquez Day in San Francisco
Description:
Mayor of San Francisco Art Agnos, proclaimed May 25, 1991 as Carmen Vázquez Day in San Francisco in honor of the contributions Carmen Vázquez made to the lesbian and gay community as President of the Board of the Women's Building of the Bay Area as an as leader in the women's community.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
1991 May 25
Genre:
proclamations
March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation program guide cover
Main Title:
March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation program guide cover
Description:
Cover of the Program Guide for March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation on April 25, 1993. It was the third March on Washington for LGBT rights.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
1993 April
Genre:
programs (documents)
Carmen Vázquez's purple and silver tie
Main Title:
Carmen Vázquez's purple and silver tie
Description:
Carmen Vázquez's Italian silk maroon tie with white and silver designs, was a gift to Vázquez for her speaking engagement at the 1996 Creating Change National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Conference in Arlington, VA. This tie also signifies the influence of Vázquez’s butch identity on her life and how wearing the tie publicly has served as an important identity-claiming moment in her own family.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
undated
Genre:
neckties
Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting of Women Activity Guidelines
Main Title:
Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting of Women Activity Guidelines
Description:
Guidelines for activities for Forum '85: The 1985 Non-Governmental World Meeting for Women in Nairobi, Kenya from July 15-19, 1985. Loretta J. Ross, Nkenge Toure, and Carmen Vázquez all attended the third UN World Conference on Women.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
1985 July
Genre:
guidelines
Carmen Vázquez at The Loft
Main Title:
Carmen Vázquez at The Loft
Description:
A color photograph of Carmen Vázquez at The Loft, a LGBT Community Center in White Plains, New York in 2002.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
2002
Genre:
color photographs
Carmen Vázquez speaking at an event
Main Title:
Carmen Vázquez speaking at an event
Description:
Black-and-white photograph of Carmen Vázquez speaking at an event circa 1990s.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
circa 1990-1999
Genre:
black-and-white photographs
Carmen Vázquez
Main Title:
Carmen Vázquez
Description:
Color photo of Carmen Vázquez.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
undated
Genre:
color photographs
Green shirt with quote from Carmen Vázquez's speech, "Wounded Attachment"
Main Title:
Green shirt with quote from Carmen Vázquez's speech, "Wounded Attachment"
Description:
The green t-shirt has a quote from Carmen Vázquez's speech, "Wounded Attachment," in which she changed the tenor of how the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force approached issue of marriage - speaking out against marriage as an equalizer and bringing a more radical stance to the task force and its direction.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Issued:
undated
Genre:
clothing
Carmen Vázquez and her mother
Main Title:
Carmen Vázquez and her mother
Description:
Carmen Vázquez (right) and her mother, Carmin, in front of a Christmas tree in December 1993.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
1993 December
Genre:
color photographs
Young Carmen Vázquez
Main Title:
Young Carmen Vázquez
Description:
A black-and-white photograph of a young Carmen Vázquez wearing glasses and a beanie.
Collection:
Carmen Vázquez papers
Date Created:
undated
Genre:
black-and-white photographs