A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island.
Contents:
- PHOTOGRAPHER VCENT-NATASHA GAY TO BUT ‘THIS IS TRANS’ PORTRA SERI AT STONEWALL COLUMB
- VCENT-NATASHA GAY MAK EP HUMAN NNECTN ‘THIS IS TRANS’
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
PHOTOGRAPHER VCENT-NATASHA GAY TO BUT ‘THIS IS TRANS’ PORTRA SERI AT STONEWALL COLUMB
Columb photographer and creative director Mx. Vcent-Natasha Gay is set to but a massive portra seri celebratg trans people. * vincent natasha gay *
Vcent-Natasha Gay — NV, for short — is the midst of a creative bloom.
On November 19, Gay is set to showse a massive portra seri featurg trans and genr non-nformg people on the ma floor at Stonewall Columb.
VCENT-NATASHA GAY MAK EP HUMAN NNECTN ‘THIS IS TRANS’
NV Gay is a renowned creative photography artist, offerg all typ of servic wh credible rults. NV seeks to uplift and empower clients through betiful creativy. Trans and LGBTQ owned, based Columb, Oh. * vincent natasha gay *
The seri — tled ‘This is Trans: A Photography Journey of Awarens and Love’ — was sparked by Gay’s own experience as a genrfluid person, and the breadth and plexy of personal inty among LGBTQ+ people. Instead of a narrow, cis-centered visn of transns, Gay’s portras embrace the slippery, lawlsns herent genr, and the sgular importance of every queer person’s journey.
“This [seri] is for the trans muny, by the trans muny, ” Gay said. For Gay, troducg their iends, fay and workers to their most thentic self was both joyful…and vastatg. ” Gay said.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
The photography exhib “This is Trans” premier March 31 at Stud Wt 117 Lakewood. Created by Columb photographer Vcent-Natasha Gay, the travelg show featur 100 portras of transgenr dividuals om around North Ameri as well as tn-foced digal art piec. * vincent natasha gay *
Not everyone Gay’s life passed the tt. When their birth fay disowned them, and they had to leave their longtime reer as an tor, Gay entered a perd of tense change and trospectn.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
This se is dited to the Mx. Vcent-Natasha Gay's creative directn wh molg, creative directg, and photography. * vincent natasha gay *
Wh the help of therapy and a support system of close iends, Gay fally began to fd joy their own genr inty and prentatn. Searchg for a creative outlet — and a way to nnect wh trans and genr non-nformg people — Gay turned to photography.
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“Durg the panmic, I picked up a mera as a way to tell stori, ” Gay said.
After workg wh a non-bary mol, Gay began thkg about a portra seri that would both document LGBTQ+ people and their stori, and provi a safe, joyo, queer and eply llaborative experience — somethg trans and genr non-nformg mols don’t often enunter while beg photographed. “I wanted to do this a different way, ” Gay said. “There are people of all different inti, all different pronouns, different backgrounds and ag, ” Gay said.
Those sgulari are precisely what Gay hop to celebrate, both wh the portra seri and the exhibn’s openg event.
Psoas lésbis, gays, bissexuais e trans (LGBT) em São Vicente e Granadas enentam vlência e discrimação motivadas por prenceo no tidiano, disse a Human Rights Watch em um relatór divulgado hoje. O legislativo do país veria revogar as leis do período lonial que crimalizam o sexo nsensual entre psoas do mmo sexo e aprovar legislação civil abrangente que proíba a discrimação base na orientação sexual e intida gênero. * vincent natasha gay *
At Stonewall Columb, Gay’s openg event will clu the screeng of an acpanyg documentary film directed by Gay, ee drag performanc and a silent ctn featurg LGBTQ+ artists om around the world. Gay’s portra seri will hang on the ma floor, featurg each subject’s pronouns and a sgle personal quote. “Their nam will never appear, ” Gay said.
Above all else, Gay hop their work documentg queer and trans people will help build safer, more joyful and more equable muni for trans people everywhere. “Before we e out we believe that we’re alone, but we’re not, ” Gay said.
Vcent-Natasha Gay and their work, click here. Photographer Vcent-Natasha Gay started work on “This Is Trans” Febary, ially tendg to document “what tly means to be trans, ” they said.