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. Group Rate is Unr MGRA or Missouri Gay Roo Associatn and ends.
CELEBRATG LGBTQ SPORTS HISTORY: FIRST GAY ROO
“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.