The Queering of Sonoma: From LG to LGBTQI

Shad Reinstein and Tina Dungan

Stevenson 101
9:30 AM

Sonoma County LGBTQI History Timeline creators Tina Dungan and Shad Reinstein will show how Sonoma has always had an LGBTQI presence and has played a significant role in queer culture and politics. What was happening here in the years before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York? What did gender nonconformity look like here during the 1970s and 80s? How did Sonoma County help stop a national anti-LGBTQ movement? How did one person start the intersex movement here? The Sonoma County LGBTQI Timeline has displayed at Sonoma County Pride and Sonoma State University. Dungan is a life-long resident of Sonoma County who came out as a lesbian during the early 1970s through her involvement in the first Women’s Studies program at SSU. Since 2007, she has been working with others through Lesbian Archives of Sonoma County to capture the cultural and political history of that community. Reinstein, who came out shortly after Stonewall, has been involved since then in LGBTQI culture and politics, and as a documentary filmmaker, she now produces OUTwatch, Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival.