Renred bronze, vered whe lacquer, two women s together on a park bench Greenwich Village. One of the women touch the thigh of her partner as they gaze to each other’s ey. The two women are part of Gee Segal’s inic sculpture Gay Liberatn, but the powerful symbols were moled on real people: Llie Cohen and her wife Beth Sk.
Contents:
- THE MAKG OF GEE SEGAL’S GAY LIBERATN
- TEN QUEER REIMAGGS OF NEW YORK'S 'GAY LIBERATN MONUMENT'
- PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
- VANDALISM OF GAY LIBERATN MONUMENT AT STANFORD UNIVERSY
- #GEE SEGAL #GAY LIBERATN STATUE #LGBTQ+ RIGHTS #ACTIVISM, #1970S HISTORY #GAY RIGHTS #LBIAN HISTORY #EQUALY #NYC PUBLIC ART #GAY ART #PRI #STONEWALLNATNALMONUMENT #HISTORILSE #LGBTQHISTORY
THE MAKG OF GEE SEGAL’S GAY LIBERATN
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, both key figur the gay liberatn movement, will be honored wh a permanent stallatn Greenwich Village. * gay liberation statues *
View all monuments NYC Parks, as well as temporary public art stallatns on our NYC Public Art Map and LiberatnHistoryThis sculpture by Gee Segal (1924–2000) honors the gay rights movement and memorat the events at the Stonewall Inn oppose this park that gave rise to the movement. In 1966, closed for renovatns, and reopened the followg year as a private club known as Stonewall Inn - a bar and dance hall which, like numero lol tablishments, tered to the homosexual muny of Greenwich Village. Word of the raid and the ristance to soon spread, and the next day hundreds gathered to prott the crackdown and advote the legalizatn of gay bars.
Further protts epted early July, and on July 27, a group of activists anized the first gay and lbian march, om Washgton Square to Stonewall.
The events of that summer and their aftermath are often creded as the flashpot for the gay rights movement the Uned Stat.
TEN QUEER REIMAGGS OF NEW YORK'S 'GAY LIBERATN MONUMENT'
<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that * gay liberation statues *
A later, Peter Putnam (1927–1987), a wealthy arts patron om Louisiana and tstee of the Mildred Andrews Fund, missned the Gay Liberatn monument.
PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
Though Segal was not the first artist approached, he accepted the missn, which stipulated only that the work “had to be lovg and rg, and show the affectn that is the hallmark of gay people...
VANDALISM OF GAY LIBERATN MONUMENT AT STANFORD UNIVERSY
The rult is specific, evotive, and unrstated, showg the public fort and eedom to which the gay liberatn movement aspired.
#GEE SEGAL #GAY LIBERATN STATUE #LGBTQ+ RIGHTS #ACTIVISM, #1970S HISTORY #GAY RIGHTS #LBIAN HISTORY #EQUALY #NYC PUBLIC ART #GAY ART #PRI #STONEWALLNATNALMONUMENT #HISTORILSE #LGBTQHISTORY
The ial opposn and ranr which had greeted the project had subsid; the advent of AIDS, which had vastated the gay muny particular, add another poignant dimensn to the monument and s mute figur’ impact. Click map for directnsClick image for larger viewGay Liberatn DetailsLotn: Adjog Sheridan Square, Christopher, Grove and Wt 4th StreetsSculptor: Gee SegalArchect: Philip N.