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Panel and community discussion on the politics of creating, collecting and using material culture to examine LGBTQ+ history with Tom Antonik, Robert Diamante and Brody Wood, facilitated by Ryan Conrad. This event was held on April 30, 2016 at the University of Southern Maine and was sponsored by USM's Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine LGBT Collection.

Gerald Talbot was the first African American to be elected to the Maine state legislature where he was instrumental in the passing of several civil rights bills.He also has served several terms as president of the NAACP Portland Branch, and it was his collection that was the catalyst for the African American Collection, which is housed in the Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine. Gerald Talbot was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010.

USM News Weekly newseltter with mention of Madeleine Giguère receiving a faculty enrichment grant from the Canadian government to study the sociology of Acadians at the University of Moncton during the summer of 1980. ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/giguere-usm-career/1024/thumbnail.jpg

Photograph of performers from the University Maine at Portland-Gorham (UMPG) production of Carnival during the AETA-USO Overseas tour c. 1970. ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/theatre-uso-tour/1018/thumbnail.jpg

As this year's Sampson Center exhibition makes clear the powerful desire to find historical inevitability in the advance toward equal opportunity for all Americans has become far more nuanced by the sometimes discomforting reminders that advances at the ballot box are neither as clear-cut nor as unconditional as we once hoped. The ancient antipathies of racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia are not so easily elided by political campaigns and elections. The pace of social consensus requires a degree of patience and continuing attention that tries the very fabric of American life while we attempt to comprehend the consequences of change wrought by our heightened understanding of the implications of diversity in American life. Table of Contents: Introduction (Selma Botman, USM President) Quiet Revolution: A Tally of Black Victories (Bob Greene, for the African American Collection) Is It Good for the Jews? Is it Good for Everyone? Maine Jewry between Civic Idealism and the Politics of Reality (Abraham J. Peck, Scholar-in-Residence for the Judaica Collection) From the Closet to the Ballot-Box: Electoral Politics and Maine's LGBT Citizens, 1970s to the Present (Howard M. Solomon, Scholar-in-Residence for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection) ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/event_catalog/1003/thumbnail.jpg