Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement

Photographs by Deb Crerie

Portrait of Equality Marches

1993-2023

 

The Stonewall Inn Pride Flags 
Friday June 26, DOMA Day, 2015 
New York, New York 
24” x 36”


Claire, Kay & Deb, The March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, 
1993 
Washington, D.C. 


Men Wave From the Window of The Willard Hotel, The March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, 
1993 
Washington, D.C. 
11” x17”
Queer it Up
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C. 
20” x 20”

Young Girl with Pride Flag
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C.
16”x 24”
March For The Right To Love, Moms!
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C. 
11” x 17”
Deb Crerie and Jaim Foster Outside The National Museum of African American History and Culture duringThe March For Equal Rights, 10/11/2009
Washington, D. C.
11” x17”
Equality & Capitol 
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C.
11” x 17”
End The Harm
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C.
11” x 17”
14th Amendment Marcher in 
Red Jacket
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C.
16”x 24”
The Parade March Marshall 
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C. 
20” x 40”
Portrait of Wynn
The March For Equal Rights
October 11, 2009
Washington, D.C. 
20” x 30”
Portrait of Kay on DOMA Day
Friday June 26, 2015 
New York, New York 
Photograph
20” x 30
Men Embracing On DOMA Day In Matching Outfits
Friday June 26, 2015 
New York, New York 
20” x 20”
The Lilac Fairy
Outside The Stonewall Inn 
On DOMA Day, 2015 
New York, New York 
11” x17”
Kisses, Love Wins!
Outside The Stonewall Inn 
On DOMA Day, 2015 
New York, New York 
11” x17”
God Hates Bags: DOMA Day
Friday June 26, 2015 
New York, New York 
20” x 40”
Hugs, Love Wins! 
Outside The Stonewall Inn 
On DOMA Day, 2015 
New York, New York 
11” x17”
Pride Flag and McDreamy
NYC Gay Pride Parade 2015 
New York, New York 
11” x17”
USA And Pride Flags Wrapped Together 
July 2015 
Arlington, Virginia
20” x 40”
The Women’s March, Pussy Power 
January 21,2017
Washington, D.C. 
24”x 30”
The Women’s March, Young Brother
January 21,2017
Washington, D.C. 
16”x 24”
Yellow Pokemon Shirt and Pride Flag with IC Bruiser
Cedar Rapids Pride Parade
June 10, 2023
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
11” x17”
Black Voices Matter

Cedar Rapids Pride Parade
June 10, 2023
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
24” x48”

April 25, 1993, The March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation.  After the Bush Administration, and two months into the Clinton Presidency, the demands and concerns were to lift the ban on LGBT service in the military, oppose Colorado’s Amendment 2 and increased funding for AIDS research and treatment leading to a cure. Organizers and the D.C. Police estimated that 800,00 to 1 Million Marchers participated in this March to the U.S. Capitol. 

October 11, 2009, The National Equality March was organized to call for the equal rights for LGBT People in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The March coincided with National Coming Out Day. The inauguration of President Barack Obama created a hopeful atmosphere in the LGBT community and offered the promise of full human and civil rights for all.

June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the 14th Amendment requires all U.S. state laws to recognize same-sex marriages. I was with my wife at The Stonewall Inn, considered the site of the watershed event that transformed the gay liberation movement and the continuing fight for Equal LBGTQ rights. We gathered at The Stonewall Into celebrate and mark the historic Supreme Court ruling. It was time to dress up and take to the street to celebrate!

January 21, 2017, The Women’s March, a day after the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, was a world wide protest of misogynistic policy positions and rhetoric that threatened the rights of women. The goal was to send a bold message to the new administration. Advocacy for immigration reform, health care reform, disability justice, reproductive rights, racial equality, LGBTQ rights, freedom of religion and the continuing  position that “women’s rights are human rights” were the foundation that called record numbers of marchers in Washington, D.C. and around the world on that day. 

Many marchers carried hand lettered and thoughtful posters, along with wearing the famous pink “pussy” hats. The march was a peaceful, earnest family event. The kindness and caring by everyone assembled in Washington, D.C. gave us all hope.

June 10, 2023, CR Pride held the second annual Pride Parade; “Love With Pride” along 3rd Ave SE. in the New Bohemia District. The friendly community crowd cheered on marchers at the second annual Pride Parade assembled in support for Equal LBGTQ+ rights.

The photographs in this exhibit are a fraction of the archive of photographs I took at March Events 1993 – 2023. If I am in the photograph, I instructed a friend or a March participant to take the image. The photographs before 2000, are taken with an SLR film camera, generally a Canon and photographs taken after 2000, use a digital camera, a Sony, a Canon or an iPhone. 

All photographs were taken at a public event and subject to laws protecting free speech and rights in public.

It is legal to photograph or videotape anything and anyone on any public property, within reasonable community standards.
Photographing or videotaping a tourist attraction, whether publicly or privately owned, is generally considered legal, unless explicitly prohibited by a specific law or statute.