Cathy Cade (born 1942, Hawaii),[1] is an American photographer noted for her work in documentary photography, including photos about lesbian mothering.[2] She has been a feminist and lesbian activist since the early 1970s, starting as an activist and inspired by the power of photography in the early 1960s as part of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.[2]
She currently lives in Berkeley, and is working with her archives at The Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley.[3] She is a member of the Bay Area Civil Rights Veterans and has memoir material at the Civil Rights Movement Archive. She is a member of Old Lesbians Organizing for Change.