New York Times publishes obituary for groundbreaking lesbian photographer Cathy Cade ’63
Cade studied sociology at Carleton.
The New York Times published the obituary for Cathy Cade ’63, “an activist and pioneering photographer who chronicled same-sex female relationships, producing a 1987 book that was hailed by feminists and gay-rights advocates as a classic.”
As a student at Carleton College… Ms. Cade participated in an exchange program with Spelman College, the historically Black institution for women in Atlanta. There, she became active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, the Black campus organization that fought for racial justice.
After graduating from Carleton with a bachelor’s degree in sociology a year later, she went to work for SNCC full time, participating in sit-ins and protests in the South and attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. She continued her activism in the latter half of the 1960s while earning a doctorate in sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans.