You see, while social media and digital photography were still relatively new and certainly not yet ubiquitous, in 1994 Executive Director Brenda Schumacher had begun the tradition of ensuring everything about Pride was documented through photography. When the repeal of DADT took effect later that year, Pride began the long process of uploading our photographic history to Facebook and something amazing happened. The risk was too great for our service members.
While we had enjoyed LGBTQ employment protections for some time in the state of California – San Diego had the highest concentration of LGBTQ military personell in the country, and the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell had not yet taken effect.
When I first began working at Pride in 2011 we were not yet using photos to tell the story of our organization or community.
