ACTIVATING QUEER HISTORY

FROM MEMORY TO MOVEMENT

 

At Badge Of Pride, we don’t simply preserve history—we ignite it.

 

Guided by Harvey Milk’s timeless charge, “How can people change their minds about us if they don’t know who we are?”, we transform LGBTQ+ artifacts into catalysts for cultural change.

 

Through our nationally-significant collection, we bring Queer history out of the archives and into public life—not as relics of the past, but as living forces that inspire action, spark dialogue, and connect generations.

 

HISTORY. ACTION. CHANGE.

 

Every object we steward carries the weight of lives lived, battles fought, and communities built. These artifacts are not simply rare—they are resonant. They remind us where we’ve been and call us to shape what comes next.

 

At Badge Of Pride, we curate landmark exhibitions, design immersive programs, and foster conversations that challenge erasure and reimagine what’s possible.

 

Our success is not measured by the size of our collection, but by the stories we tell—and the hearts and minds they transform.

 

A LIVING COLLECTION

 

Queer history is not niche history. It is American history. Global history. And it demands to be celebrated, questioned, and understood as a driving force for cultural progress.

 

By bringing these stories into conversation with art, activism, and contemporary movements, we create rare opportunities for audiences to engage Queer heritage in profound and deeply personal ways.

 

OUR METHODOLOGY

 

Our approach is informed by the principles of Active Collections, edited By Elizabeth Wood, Rainey Tisdale, and Trevor Jones, and reimagined through a distinctly Queer lens. We believe history does not belong behind glass; it belongs in dialogue—with art, with community, with the movements of today.

 

This is how memory becomes momentum.