Cultivating Lesbian Community: The Daughters of Bilitis in New Orleans

Join HNOC and the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana for an evening honoring the legacy of the Daughters of Bilitis, a lesbian social and civil rights organization. The program will include an archival show-and-tell of newly acquired objects from the organization, followed by a conversation featuring Sharon Dauzat, former director of the New Orleans Daughters of Bilitis, and Frank Perez, executive director of the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana. Attendees are invited to a brief reception following the event.

Admission is free, but registration is required (space is limited).

Learn more and register: https://hnoc.org/events/cultivating-lesbian-community-the-daughters-of-bilitis-in-new-orleans

📷: Susan Dauzat, August 1967. HNOC, gift of Sharon Dauzat, facilitated by the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana, 2025.0078.2.1

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