Celebrating Jackie Shane
Help Us With Her Historical Marker
🎵 Listening to: “Any Other Way” by Jackie Shane
Donate to Jackie Shane Historical Marker
Nashville Queer History is partnering with the family of Jackie Shane to manufacture and install a historical marker that honors and celebrates the legacy of this trailblazing Black, transgender soul singer born right here in Nashville. The historical marker text, featured below, has already been approved by the Metro Historical Commission. We just need to raise the money for the creation of the marker itself. Please donate $5 or more to the GoFundMe for the Jackie Shane Historical Marker, and share this fundraiser with your friends!
The historical marker will be installed at the end of this year along Jefferson Street in North Nashville near the former site of Club Del Morocco, a Black music venue that Jackie and fellow Black musicians from the 1950s and 1960s would have been familiar with. Like many of the Black businesses along this street, the club was destroyed during the construction of the interstate.
Nashville Pride Rewind! 🏳️🌈
Nashville Queer History had a large presence at this year’s Nashville Pride Festival, and we were grateful for the opportunity to share our research on 50 Years of Pride Celebrations in Nashville with festival attendees. Thank you to everyone who visited our exhibit display, created a page for our community zine, and added to our painting of Jeannine Drake, a Black trans woman from Nashville who lived as her authentic self despite being arrested five times between 1966 and 1974 for “female impersonation.”
The zines will be digitized and made into a digital zine hosted on our website, and we will also preserve the physical pages too! Meanwhile, through our friends at Nashville Black Pride, we are giving the community painting of Jeannine Drake to her family!
Enjoy some photographs from our Pride booth:
