Contents:
- IN GAY ROO PHOTOGRAPHS, A BULL RIR UNTENTNALLY CAPTURED HISTORY
- CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY ROO
IN GAY ROO PHOTOGRAPHS, A BULL RIR UNTENTNALLY CAPTURED HISTORY
Feb 17 - 19,Arizona Gay Roo, Phoenix, AZ. The Missouri Gay Roo Associatn (MGRA) is celebratg 34 years, 1986 - 2020. We are an affiliated chapter of the Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn (IGRA) who sanctns the roo.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY ROO
Group Rate is Unr MGRA or Missouri Gay Roo Associatn and ends.
“We were hooked immediately, by the whole scene, watchg , imagg that the guys were really dog this, and they were gay, ” Ltle would later say of the first Internatnal Gay Roo Associatn event he attend, Los Angel 1988. Ltle never imaged his pictur would be exhibed art galleri, but Blake Ltle: Photographs om the Gay Roo is showg the next two weekends at the Mid-Ameri Arts Alliance. Organized by the the Eelj Mm of Amerin Indians and Wtern Art Indianapolis, the exhibn also spent last summer at the Sala Art photos were origally published a Los Angel gay newspaper, mostly to promote the roo, Ltle says.
He’d put them away a file he was eventually ntacted by a historian named Gregory Hton, who was rearchg the role of gays the Amerin Wt and eventually brought the imag to the attentn of Eelj curator Johanna Blume. I want to share the imag for two reasons: to memorialize my unfettable experienc gay roo the late 1980s, and to honor the wboys who peted wh me and let a huge mark on my life.