Acknowledgements

Team

This digital exhibit was produced by Dr. Tamar Carroll, Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), in collaboration with RIT student research assistants Kadin Benjamin, Emmarose Tabin, Kyra Schultz, Nathaniel Bartsch, Cassidy Wall, Jackson Burns Bulmer, Dylan Clausen, Kyle Messerle, Emily Chrisostomo, Mitera Maureli, and Noelle Marino, as well as Brighton High School students Max and Sara Zinkin. RIT librarian Rebekah Walker, Benjamin Meyers of RIT Research Computing, and Kate Lomax at Artefacto provided advising and technical support.  We are so grateful to  Lambda Network at Kodak members, especially Emily Jones and Dan Sapper, for their contributions of photos, videos, documents, and oral histories and for what they did to help improve the lives of LGBTQ people, inside and outside of Kodak. Additionally, we are grateful to the late Evelyn Bailey, the late Out Alliance Historian and Rochester LGBTQ Community Archivist, for helping us reach past Lambda Network members, granting us access to archived interviews of past members, and her extensive support and documentation of Rochester's LGBTQ community.  

Thank you to RIT's College of Liberal Arts for its support of this project.

 

Dates

This project began in May 2021, and it was last updated in June 2026.