Columb photographer and creative director Mx. Vcent-Natasha Gay is set to but a massive portra seri celebratg trans people.
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- 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
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Vcent-Natasha Gay — NV, for short — is the midst of a creative bloom.
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 *
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. 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.
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 *
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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
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” Gay said. 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. 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.
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. * vincent natasha gay *
“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.
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 *
Those sgulari are precisely what Gay hop to celebrate, both wh the portra seri and the exhibn’s openg event. 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.