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• ARTISTS AND CREATIV REFLECT ON HOW STONEWALL CHANGED ARTARTSY EDORSJUN 14, 2019 3:31PMIT’S BEEN HALF A CENTURY SCE THE FATEFUL SATURDAY OF JUNE 28, 1969, WHEN MEMBERS OF NEW YORK’S GAY MUNY RETALIATED AGAST AN EARLY-MORNG POLICE RAID AT GREENWICH VILLAGE HANGOUT THE STONEWALL INN. A SPONTANEO SERI OF MONSTRATNS NTUED THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS. THE STONEWALL RTS, AS THEY HAVE E TO BE KNOWN, SPARKED THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT AND BROUGHT THE FIGHT FOR LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHTS TO NATNAL ATTENTN. ON STONEWALL’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY, WE ASKED ARTISTS, WRERS, AND ACTIVISTS TO SHARE THEIR REFLECTNS ON HOW THAT MOMENT AFFECTED QUEER LIFE NEW YORK CY, AS WELL AS THEIR OWN CREATIVE PRACTIC. ARTIST TOMMY LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, THE ONLY SURVIVG PERSON FEATURED FRED W. MCDARRAH’S INIC 1969 PHOTOGRAPH CELEBRATN AFTER RTS OUTSI STONEWALL INN, REUNTS THE SULAR WAYS GAY MUNI OPERATED BEFORE THE RTS. PHOTOGRAPHER ARTHUR TRS OBSERV THAT DRAG PERFORMERS’ MP THEATRICS OPENED HIM UP TO SURREALISTIC AND HOMOEROTIC THEM HIS OWN WORK. ARTIST AND WRER HARMONY HAMMOND NVEYS THE NECSY OF RERDG THE HISTORY OF LBIAN ART TO PREVENT S ERASURE. ALL OF THE FIGUR WHO HAVE GONE ON THE RERD HERE SCRIBE AN OPENG UP OF GAY LIFE THE YEARS AFTER STONEWALL. THEIR SISTENCE ON LIVG THENTILLY—AND ON FIGHTG FOR THE RIGHT TO DO SO—REFLECTS THE URGENT ISSU OF INTY THAT WE NTUE TO GRAPPLE WH TODAY.HARMONY HAMMONDTHE FEMIST ARTIST, ACTIVIST, CURATOR, AND WRER RELLECTS CURATG HER FIRST LBIAN ART SHOW AND TAKG ON THE TASK OF RERDG THE HISTORY OF LBIAN ART.ADVERTISEMENTSTONEWALL WAS A MOMENTO EVENT WHICH OF URSE IMPACTED MY LIFE, BUT I DIDN’T HAVE THAT “MOON-LANDG MOMENT.” GENERALLY SPEAKG, THE WOMEN’S LIBERATN MOVEMENT AFFECTED MY LIFE MORE THAN THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT. IN 1970, I JOED A NSCNS-RAISG GROUP WH PRIMARILY WOMEN ARTISTS (BOTH STRAIGHT AND LBIAN INTIFIED). UNTIL THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, WOMEN ARTISTS DIDN’T TALK TO EACH OTHER BEE WOMEN’S LIV, FEELGS, AND EXPERIENC WERE NOT VALUED. WH NSCNS RAISG, WE BEGAN TO UNRSTAND THAT WOMEN AS A CLASS WERE OPPRSED, AND BEGAN TO TAKE WOMEN’S WORK SERLY. WH MY GROUP, THERE WAS A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR EXPERIMENTG AND SPEAKG OM A GENRED VOICE. WHILE THERE WERE A LOT OF GAY AND LBIAN ARTISTS THE DOWNTOWN ART SCENE, SEXUAL PREFERENCE—MUCH LS SEXUAL INTY—OFTEN WENT UNNAMED, AND BEG UNNAMED, REMAED APOLIL. EVEN GAY MEN, MANY OF WHOM WERE CURATORS, ALERS, AND ART WRERS, DISCRIMATED AGAST WOMEN ARTISTS. JT AS WE NEED EXHIBNS THAT FOCED ON HISTORIL AND NTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS, WE NEED SHOWS OF WORK BY LBIAN-INTIFIED ARTISTS WHO WERE ABSENT THE HISTORIL NARRATIVE OF WTERN ART.IN 1978, I CURATED “A LBIAN SHOW” AT 112 GREENE STREET. A FEW LBIAN ARTISTS I KNEW DIDN’T WANT TO BE SUCH A SHOW AS THEY FEARED LABELS WOULD LIM HOW THEIR WORK WOULD BE VIEWED OR THAT THEIR REERS WOULD SUFFER. MOST WELED THE OPPORTUNY TO PUT THE WORDS “LBIAN” AND “ARTIST” TOGETHER, AS SRY AS WAS. I DON’T HAVE TROUBLE CLAIMG LABELS—THEY ARE ONLY LIMG IF YOU LET THEM BE. BGRAPHI ON LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS LIKE BETTY PARSONS, LOUISE NEVELSON, AGN MART, AND NELL BLAE WEREN’T PUBLISHED YET. THE HISTORY OF LBIAN ART AND ARTISTS WAS MISSG. THAT’S WHY I CURATED “A LBIAN SHOW” AND WROTE LBIAN ART AMERI: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (2000). IT’S NOT ONLY ABOUT MAKG OUR WORK; WE HAVE TO DOCUMENT AND PRERVE AND SIST ON A PLACE HISTORY OR TOO WILL BE ERASED. IMAGE ONE OM LEFT: HARMONY HAMMOND AND DGHTER TANYA AT CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATN DAY GAY PRI MARCH, NYC, 1974. PHOTO BY CIDNE HART FOR LIBERATN NEWS SERVICE. PRTED MAJORY REPORT. GETTY REARCH INSTUTE, LA. COVER OF HARMONY HAMMOND, LBIAN ART AMERI; A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (RIZZOLI, NYC, 2000). COVER IMAGE: DYKE, 1993 BY CATHERE OPIE. COVER OF OUR BODI, OURSELV, 1970. IMAGE TWO OM LEFT: COVER OF THE NEW WOMAN’S SURVIVAL SOURCEBOOK, 1975. HARMONY HAMMOND, SELF PORTRA WH BLACK HAT, 1973. GETTY REARCH INSTUTE, LA. ALL IMAG URTY OF HARMONY HAMMOND.MARTHA SHELLEYTHE GAY LIBERATN FRONT -FOUNR, WRER, AND POET ACCINTALLY FOUND HERSELF AT THE STONEWALL RTS. HERE, SHE REFLECTS ON HOW ARTISTIC REPRENTATNS OF LBIANS WERE ALTERED BY THE EVENT.ADVERTISEMENTIN THE YEARS BEFORE STONEWALL, WHEN WOMEN WENT TO A MARCH, THEY HAD TO WEAR SKIRTS, AND MEN WERE SUS AND TI. I HATED . I WAS NOT WEARG SKIRTS NORMALLY. IT WAS SO PHONY: “PLEASE, WE’RE JT LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.” WELL, WE WEREN’T. OR AT LEAST I DIDN’T THK OF MYSELF LIKE THAT. WHEN GAY LIBERATN ME UP, WE WERE SAYG: “WE’RE GONNA BE OUT ON THE STREETS AND YOUR FACE.” WE WOULD GO AS A GROUP TO ANTI-WAR MARCH, OR PICKET AT THE WOMEN’S TENTN CENTER WHEN ANGELA DAVIS WAS THERE. WE HAD MONSTRATNS MANDG OUR RIGHTS AS WHO WE ARE, NOT A SLIGHT VARIATN ON MR. AND MRS. SUBURBIA. BEFORE GAY LIBERATN, IF A MOVIE HAD A GAY CHARACTER, PECIALLY A WOMAN, SHE HAD TO BE KILLED AT THE END. THERE WAS A FILM BASED ON A D.H. LAWRENCE NOVELLA, THE FOX, WH TWO WOMEN —ONE BLON AND ONE BTE. THE BTE IS THE “BUTCH,” THOUGH THEY BOTH LOOK VERY FEME. SHE GETS KILLED THE END, AND THE GUY WALKS OUT WH THE BLON. THAT’S THE KD OF IMAGERY WE GOT. AFTER STONEWALL, THERE WAS AN EXPLOSN OF ART THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, REPRENTED A POSIVE WAY. MY POEMS AND SAYS BEME LS ROMANTICIZED AND MORE REALISTIC. I DIDN’T HAVE TO DISGUISE OR MAKE THGS FLOWERY. OVER THE YEARS, I’VE WRTEN THREE HISTORIL NOVELS, A TRILOGY. THERE ARE LBIANS . THEY JT LIVE THEIR LIV AND THEIR STGGL. FOR ME, BEG A LBIAN HAS BEE THE WAY IS AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHG THAT HAS TO BE HIDN. AND I THK MY ART HAS GOTTEN BETTER FOR .IMAG OM LEFT: MARTHA SHELLEY AT THE LAVENR MENACE ACTN 1970. WOMEN’S LIBERATN, 1970. COURTY OF THE ARTIST.THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDTTHE ARTIST, WHO WAS HIS EARLY TWENTI DURG STONEWALL, REFLECTS ON HIS MUNY OF GAY TEENAGE NAWAYS AND MANHATTAN’S DRAG CULTURE.IT WAS LIKE A DIFFERENT CIVILIZATN BACK THEN. GAY TEENAGERS SPOKE A STREET TALK OF THEIR OWN. IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR MEN TO RRY CERTA TYP OF HANDBAGS OR SHOULR BAGS—STEAD, STREET QUEENS WORE PAN AM BAGS OR THE TOURISTY, GRECIAN BAGS. A “HBAND” WAS ANYONE A PERSON WAS HAVG SEX WH AT THE MOMENT. “SRE DRAG” MEANT ALL MEN’S CLOTHG, BUT YOU ULD HAVE EYE MAKP AND BACKB YOUR HAIR: IT WAS AGAST THE LAW IF YOU WEREN’T WEARG AT LEAST THREE ARTICL OF MEN’S CLOTHG.I RAN AWAY OM HOME NEW JERSEY WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER. FORTY-SEND STREET WAS TOO FAST FOR ME—DGGY, A LOT OF HTLG. THE NICE THG ABOUT THE VILLAGE WAS YOU ULD S OUTSI AND READ A BOOK. DOWN THERE, I MET A GROUP OF OTHER GAY TEENAGE NAWAYS. OUR BIGGT ENEMY WAS THE POLICE. WE HAD DIFFERENT LABELS FOR THEM, LIKE LILY LAW, OR LILLIAN, OR LILY. WHEN A P WAS A FOOT AWAY, YOU ULD SAY, “HEY GIRL, THERE’S LILLIAN.” ALL THE WORDS CREATED A WORLD ONLY ME AND MY IENDS ULD UNRSTAND. THERE WAS THIS AREA OF THE VILLAGE, BETWEEN CHRISTOPHER STREET AND THE DOCKS, THAT ULD BE LLED A “GAY GHETTO.” STONEWALL WAS THE MIDDLE OF THAT. ALL DIFFERENT CLASS OF GAY PEOPLE MIXED, AND WAS A VIBRANT PLACE FOR SHARG IAS. STONEWALL WAS IMPORTANT BEE YOU ULD SLOW DANCE THERE, WHICH CREATED A SPACE THAT WASN’T JT ABOUT JUMPG TO HAVG SEX. IT WAS A RUAL SPACE WHERE YOU AND ANOTHER PERSON ULD MUTUALLY CI IF YOU WERE GOG HOME TOGETHER. THERE WAS AN ALTERATN NSCNS. WE WERE DOG THE SAME THG HETEROSEXUALS WERE DOG. IT WAS AN EMBRACE OF PERSONHOOD. AROUND THE TIME OF THE STONEWALL RTS, I STARTED PERFORMG DRAG AS ETHEL DULL (ETHEL SCULL WAS A MAJOR LLECTOR). I’D VE PEOPLE TO WHERE I LIVED AND GIVE A TOUR. I PLAYED MIC AND HAD THE CHALIC AND CROWNS AND TWKLE LIGHTS, WHICH ARE MON THE ART WORLD NOW, BUT NOBODY WAS G THEM THEN—THE ART WORLD HAD NO PLACE FOR ANYTHG GAY. BACK THEN, THE TERM “QUEER” WAS ALWAYS A NEGATIVE THG. IN THE MID- [TO] LATE 1960S, PUBLIC TELLECTUALS LIKE CHARL LUDLAM, CHRISTOPHER STOCKS, AND JACK SMH STARTED TO CHANGE THAT. IT WASN’T VENTED BY AMIA. AMIA SHOULD HAVE MORE HUY. ART DIDN’T CHANGE AFTER STONEWALL—WE CHANGED . IMAGE ONE OM LEFT: THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, MOTHER STONEWALL AND THE GOLN RATS, 1989. STONEWALL IENDS: THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT (TOP LEFT), MART BOYCE (TOP RIGHT), BIR RIVERA (CENTER). IMAGE TWO OM LEFT: THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT SRE DRAG AS ETHEL DULL. THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, THE DIALECTIC BETWEEN EROS AND AGAPE, 1989. ALL IMAG URTY OF THE ARTIST AND PAVEL ZOUBOK FE ART, NEW YORK.WENLL WALKERNOW PUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATNS, EXHIBNS, AND SIGN AT THE MM OF THE MOVG IMAGE, WENLL WALKER RELLS THE EMPOWERG ENERGY OF NEW YORK THE AFTER STONEWALL.WHEN I MOVED TO THE CY 1977, STONEWALL WAS ALREADY LEGENDARY. YOU’D HEAR STORI AT THE BAR ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. THE HEROISM OF , THE FACT THAT THE DRAG QUEENS HAD STOOD UP AND ACTED. WHEN THE MARCH ON WASHGTON HAPPENED 1979, ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RTS, I THK THAT’S WHEN A LOT OF THGS GELLED. THERE WAS AN AMTRAK CHARTERED DOWN TO D.C.— WAS LIKE A GAY EXPRS TRA. THE ENERGY WAS CREDIBLE. I DON’T THK ANY OF HAD EVER EXPERIENCED SOMETHG LIKE THAT. THE IA OF BEG OUT AND PROUD WAS STILL A NEW NCEPT. I GREW UP MISSISSIPPI—OBVLY, NOT A VERY GAY-IENDLY ENVIRONMENT. TO E OUT PUBLIC LIKE THAT, WH SO MANY PEOPLE, WAS VERY EMPOWERG. I THK THE MARCH LNCHED WHAT WE NOW THK OF AS THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. THEN THE FIRST DAY WHOUT ART 1989 [WHICH UNED ART PROFSNALS RPONDG TO LIV LOST THE AIDS CRISIS] WAS AN AMAZG EVENT. THAT’S WHEN PEOPLE STARTED REALIZG THE IMPACT OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT ON CULTURE. IT TOOK SOME TIME FOR STONEWALL TO FLUENCE ART. SOMETIM, EVENTS TAKE A LONG TIME TO BE DIGTED AND FILTERED TO OUR NSCNS. THEY N HAVE MORE RONANCE SEVERAL YEARS LATER.IMAGE PTN: PORTRA OF WENLL WALKER (RIGHT) WH LEON WALLER, AN ARTIST AND HIS PARTNER OF ALMOST 42 YEARS, CIR 1979. COURTY OF WENLL WALKER. ARTHUR TRSTHE PHOTOGRAPHER NTEMPLAT HOW STONEWALL EURAGED HIM TO BREAK AWAY OM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY TO VELOP THE SURREAL, OFTEN QUEER-FLECTED SCEN FOR WHICH HE HAS BEE FAMO.BY 1968, I WAS OUT AS A GAY PERSON, WHICH WAS A LTLE B UNUAL FOR THE TIME, BUT I DIDN’T AL WH GAY SUBJECT MATTER MY WORK. THAT WAS PROBABLY A FANCIAL CISN. I DID DO A SERI 1968 OF GAY MEN CISG EACH OTHER THE RAMBLE NEAR THE BOATHOE CENTRAL PARK. I WOULD GO WH MY MERA AND SHOW PEOPLE TRYG TO PICK EACH OTHER UP OR STANDG AROUND POSG. IT WASN’T UNTIL 1977 THAT I WAS ABLE TO EXHIB AND SHOW THOSE PHOTOS. THE STONEWALL MOVEMENT CREATED A PUBLIC FOR MY WORK. PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERI LIKE THE LLIE-LOHMAN GAY ART FOUNDATN BEGAN TO SHOW GAY ART FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHICH WAS QUE AN EXTRAORDARY THG. JT 10 YEARS AFTER I TOOK THE PHOTOS THE RAMBLE, I WAS ABLE TO EARN A LIVG DOG GAY MATERIAL. THERE WAS A NEW ERA OF GAY MAGAZ LIKE HONCHO, CHRISTOPHER STREET, AND MANDATE. I WORKED FOR THEM ALMOST LIKE A STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER.AFTER STONEWALL, I BEME VOLVED WH CHARL LUDLAM AND THE THEATER OF THE RIDICULO. THAT OPENED ME UP. GAY PEOPLE ARE OFTEN OPEN TO SURREAL, THEATRIL KDS OF MP AND DRAG EXPERIENC. YOU MIGHT SAY THAT DRAG QUEENS’ OVER-THE-TOP THEATRILY LEGIMIZED THAT; THE ARE REALLY POWERFUL PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE TO THEMSELV AND ARE NOT AAID OF EXPOSG THEIR NER QUEERNS TO EVERYONE BY CROSSDRSG.MY WORK BEGAN TENDG TO A MORE QUEER POT OF VIEW, WHATEVER THAT MEANS. I FELT THAT I DIDN’T HAVE TO BE A MACHO MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER ANYMORE. IN 1970, I BROKE AWAY OM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, WHICH HAD ALWAYS BEEN DONE BY THE HETEROSEXUAL GUYS, WH MY SERI “THE DREAM COLLECTOR,” WHICH SHOWS DREAMS OF CHILDREN FLYG, FALLG. IT WAS LIBERATG FOR ME TO BRG MY IMAGATIVE FANTASY LIFE TO MY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUT THAT ON THE WALL.IMAGE ONE OM LEFT: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, PETER REED, AND SAM WAGSTAFF AT ARTHUR TRS OPENG, 1979. ARTHUR TRS 2000. MILLENNIAL POSTAGE STAMP MISSNED BY THE ROYAL POST WH GAY THEME. COUPLE MUNICIPAL BUILDG ROOF, NEW YORK, CHRISTOPHER ST. MAGAZE, 1978. IMAGE TWO OM LEFT: ARTHUR TRS, SELF PORTRA, ABRAHAM LLN HIGH SCHOOL, BROOKLYN, 1958. ARTHUR TRS AT THE FIRST GAY PRI PARA, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, 1970. ALL IMAG URTY OF THE ARTIST.MICHELA GRIFFOTHE ARTIST, WHO WAS 20 DURG STONEWALL, REMEMBERS HER ACTIVIST BEGNGS WH THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT, HER FIRST POLIL ARTWORK, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF DANCE.WHEN THE STONEWALL RTS OCCURRED AT NIGHT, I HAD NO IA. I BELIEVE THERE WAS A SMALL ARTICLE— WAS ALL KD OF HH-HH. THERE WAS SO MUCH GOG ON AT THE TIME, OM THE PANTHERS TO THE SDS [STUNTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, AN ANTI-WAR GROUP] UP AT COLUMBIA TO THE YOUNG LORDS [A CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP]. KENT STATE WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. EVERYBODY WAS THE STREETS RTG ABOUT SOMETHG. BUT I WAS ED TO BEG SP ON AND YELLED AT BEE I WAS PART OF THE REDSTOCKGS, THE FIRST GROUP THAT WANTED TO CHANGE ABORTN LAWS NEW YORK. I WAS ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST 12 MEMBERS OF THE NATNAL ORGANIZATN FOR WOMEN (NOW). MY HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEART AND I SEPARATED WHEN HE TRODUCED ME TO HIS FAY—RELIG DIFFERENC. IN AUGT OF 1969, I WAS LEAVG A RED STOCKGS MEETG A METHODIST CHURCH AND THIS ATTRACTIVE MOL ASKED ME TO GET FFEE. SHE VED ME TO ANDY WARHOL’S PARTI; HER BT IEND WAS DIVE. I HAD NO IA WE WERE DATG: THE IA OF BEG WH A WOMAN JT WASN’T ON MY RADAR. IN FEBARY OF 1970, SHE KISSED ME. THAT WAS . AT THAT TIME, “LBIAN” WAS THE WORST THG YOU ULD LL A FEMIST. SO MANY NOW WERE CLOSETED.I SAW AN AD THE PAPER FOR THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT. THAT WAS THE BEGNG OF MY GAY ACTIVISM. DRAG QUEENS WERE A FE PART OF OUR CULTURE. I WORKED WH MARSHA [P. JOHNSON] AND SYLVIA [RIVERA]—THEY WERE TWO OF THE GROUP’S FIRST MEMBERS. FEW PEOPLE KNOW THIS, BUT ’S THE LBIANS WHO CLOSED DOWN THE MAFIA-N GAY BARS—THEY WERE ABIVE, THE DRKS WERE EXPENSIVE. FLAVIA RANDO AND I PICKETED AND HAND OUT LEAFLETS. WE WANTED WOMEN TO E TO OUR DANC STEAD, AT ALTERNATE U, DOWN THE STREET OM THE 14TH STREET MAFIA BAR KOOKY’S. ONE NIGHT, SOME MAFSOS SHOWED UP. I SAW THE GUNS! I GAVE OUR SH BOX TO [PHOTOGRAPHER] DONNA GOTTSCHALK AND TOLD HER TO TAKE DOWN THE BACK STAIRS A GARBAGE BAG. I SAID TO THEM, “WE DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY. YOU’RE WELE TO STAY IF YOU LIKE.” IN A MATTER OF WEEKS, THE BARS N BY THE MAFIA WERE CLOSED. FOR THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH (1970), I MA A POSTER THAT READ “I AM YOUR WORST FEAR; I AM YOUR BT FANTASY.” IT WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF POLIL ART I EVER MA.IMAG OM LEFT: PORTRA OF MICHELA GRIFFO BY ELLEN SHUMSKY; URTY OF THE ARTIST. DIANA DAVI, DONNA GOTTSCHALK HOLDS POSTER “I AM YOUR WORST FEAR I AM YOUR BT FANTASTY” AT CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY PARA, 1970. PHOTO BY DIANA DAVI, MANCRIPTS AND ARCHIV DIVISN, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. COURTY OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. FLAVIA RANDO
• LOOKG AT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH ART50 YEARS AFTER THE STONEWALL UPRISG, THE JEWISH MM JOS THE STONEWALL 50 CONSORTIUM TO PRENT A SERI OF PROGRAMS MEMORATG THE MOVEMENT’S ANNIVERSARY.THE JEWISH MM·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE JEWISH MM·4 M READ·JAN 15, 2019--LISTENSHAREROSS BLECKNER, DOUBLE PORTRA (GAY FLAG), 1993. OIL ON NVAS.ON JUNE 28, 1969, ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL MOMENTS FOR THE MORN-DAY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT OCCURRED — THE STONEWALL UPRISG. IT BEGAN WHEN NE POLICE OFFICERS RAID THE STONEWALL INN, A POPULAR NEW YORK CY GAY BAR LOTED ON CHRISTOPHER STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE. TO THE OFFICERS’ SURPRISE, THE PATRONS WHO WERE REGULAR ATTEN AT THE INN RISTED THEIR ARRT AND FOUGHT BACK. IT WAS THIS MOMENT THAT THE FAMO UPRISG BEGAN.WHETHER DUE TO MORE LAW ENFORCEMENT ARRIVG TO ARRT THOSE AT THE SCENE, OR SUPPORTERS OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, THE RTS CED THE ENTIRE UNTRY. THE SIX-DAY EVENT EPTED AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS GAY CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY.AT THE TIME, THE STONEWALL UPRISG UNVEILED THE DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AMERI DURG THE 1960S, WHICH THEN GAVE ROOM TO A BROAR PUBLIC DISURSE NCERNG GAY LIBERATN. BUT WAS EVEN MORE THAN THAT. ITS LEGACY ALSO SERV AS A TIMELS TALYST FOR MARGALIZED PEOPL TO FD THEIR POWER TO FIGHT AGAST JTICE.INSTALLATN VIEW OF THE EXHIBN SCEN OM THE COLLECTN. NY. PHOTO BY: JASON MANLLA50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL, THE JEWISH MM JOS DOZENS OF NON-PROF AND CULTURAL ANIZATNS AS PART OF THE STONEWALL 50 CONSORTIUM, TO PAY TRIBUTE THROUGH A YEAR OF PROGRAMMG, WHILE HIGHLIGHTG WORKS OF ART OM THE JEWISH MM LLECTN THAT EXPLORE THEM OF GENR AND INTY.ON VIEW NOW SCEN OM THE COLLECTN SOME OF THE WORKS CLU: GERT WOLLHEIM’S PORTRA OF A GENR AMBIGUO UPLE WEIMAR GERMANY; ROSS BLECKNER’S ABSTRACT PATG THAT EXPLOR HIS GAY AND JEWISH INTY; AND A SERI OF PATGS BY CHANTAL JOFFE PICTG GAY JEWISH WOMEN OF THE 20TH CENTURY, SUCH AS CL CAHUN, GERT STE, AND SAN SONTAG.CHANTAL JOFFE, SAN SONTAG, 2014. PART OF THE SERI “HANNAH, GERT, ALICE, BETTY, NADE, GOLDA, SAN, CL, NANCY, GRACE, DIANE…” OIL ON BOARD.STONEWALL 50 PROGRAMS AT THE JEWISH MM
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ARTISTS AND CREATIV REFLECT ON HOW STONEWALL CHANGED ARTARTSY EDORSJUN 14, 2019 3:31PMIT’S BEEN HALF A CENTURY SCE THE FATEFUL SATURDAY OF JUNE 28, 1969, WHEN MEMBERS OF NEW YORK’S GAY MUNY RETALIATED AGAST AN EARLY-MORNG POLICE RAID AT GREENWICH VILLAGE HANGOUT THE STONEWALL INN. A SPONTANEO SERI OF MONSTRATNS NTUED THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER MONTHS. THE STONEWALL RTS, AS THEY HAVE E TO BE KNOWN, SPARKED THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT AND BROUGHT THE FIGHT FOR LGBTQ CIVIL RIGHTS TO NATNAL ATTENTN. ON STONEWALL’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY, WE ASKED ARTISTS, WRERS, AND ACTIVISTS TO SHARE THEIR REFLECTNS ON HOW THAT MOMENT AFFECTED QUEER LIFE NEW YORK CY, AS WELL AS THEIR OWN CREATIVE PRACTIC. ARTIST TOMMY LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, THE ONLY SURVIVG PERSON FEATURED FRED W. MCDARRAH’S INIC 1969 PHOTOGRAPH CELEBRATN AFTER RTS OUTSI STONEWALL INN, REUNTS THE SULAR WAYS GAY MUNI OPERATED BEFORE THE RTS. PHOTOGRAPHER ARTHUR TRS OBSERV THAT DRAG PERFORMERS’ MP THEATRICS OPENED HIM UP TO SURREALISTIC AND HOMOEROTIC THEM HIS OWN WORK. ARTIST AND WRER HARMONY HAMMOND NVEYS THE NECSY OF RERDG THE HISTORY OF LBIAN ART TO PREVENT S ERASURE. ALL OF THE FIGUR WHO HAVE GONE ON THE RERD HERE SCRIBE AN OPENG UP OF GAY LIFE THE YEARS AFTER STONEWALL. THEIR SISTENCE ON LIVG THENTILLY—AND ON FIGHTG FOR THE RIGHT TO DO SO—REFLECTS THE URGENT ISSU OF INTY THAT WE NTUE TO GRAPPLE WH TODAY.HARMONY HAMMONDTHE FEMIST ARTIST, ACTIVIST, CURATOR, AND WRER RELLECTS CURATG HER FIRST LBIAN ART SHOW AND TAKG ON THE TASK OF RERDG THE HISTORY OF LBIAN ART.ADVERTISEMENTSTONEWALL WAS A MOMENTO EVENT WHICH OF URSE IMPACTED MY LIFE, BUT I DIDN’T HAVE THAT “MOON-LANDG MOMENT.” GENERALLY SPEAKG, THE WOMEN’S LIBERATN MOVEMENT AFFECTED MY LIFE MORE THAN THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT. IN 1970, I JOED A NSCNS-RAISG GROUP WH PRIMARILY WOMEN ARTISTS (BOTH STRAIGHT AND LBIAN INTIFIED). UNTIL THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT, WOMEN ARTISTS DIDN’T TALK TO EACH OTHER BEE WOMEN’S LIV, FEELGS, AND EXPERIENC WERE NOT VALUED. WH NSCNS RAISG, WE BEGAN TO UNRSTAND THAT WOMEN AS A CLASS WERE OPPRSED, AND BEGAN TO TAKE WOMEN’S WORK SERLY. WH MY GROUP, THERE WAS A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR EXPERIMENTG AND SPEAKG OM A GENRED VOICE. WHILE THERE WERE A LOT OF GAY AND LBIAN ARTISTS THE DOWNTOWN ART SCENE, SEXUAL PREFERENCE—MUCH LS SEXUAL INTY—OFTEN WENT UNNAMED, AND BEG UNNAMED, REMAED APOLIL. EVEN GAY MEN, MANY OF WHOM WERE CURATORS, ALERS, AND ART WRERS, DISCRIMATED AGAST WOMEN ARTISTS. JT AS WE NEED EXHIBNS THAT FOCED ON HISTORIL AND NTEMPORARY WOMEN ARTISTS, WE NEED SHOWS OF WORK BY LBIAN-INTIFIED ARTISTS WHO WERE ABSENT THE HISTORIL NARRATIVE OF WTERN ART.IN 1978, I CURATED “A LBIAN SHOW” AT 112 GREENE STREET. A FEW LBIAN ARTISTS I KNEW DIDN’T WANT TO BE SUCH A SHOW AS THEY FEARED LABELS WOULD LIM HOW THEIR WORK WOULD BE VIEWED OR THAT THEIR REERS WOULD SUFFER. MOST WELED THE OPPORTUNY TO PUT THE WORDS “LBIAN” AND “ARTIST” TOGETHER, AS SRY AS WAS. I DON’T HAVE TROUBLE CLAIMG LABELS—THEY ARE ONLY LIMG IF YOU LET THEM BE. BGRAPHI ON LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ARTISTS LIKE BETTY PARSONS, LOUISE NEVELSON, AGN MART, AND NELL BLAE WEREN’T PUBLISHED YET. THE HISTORY OF LBIAN ART AND ARTISTS WAS MISSG. THAT’S WHY I CURATED “A LBIAN SHOW” AND WROTE LBIAN ART AMERI: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (2000). IT’S NOT ONLY ABOUT MAKG OUR WORK; WE HAVE TO DOCUMENT AND PRERVE AND SIST ON A PLACE HISTORY OR TOO WILL BE ERASED. IMAGE ONE OM LEFT: HARMONY HAMMOND AND DGHTER TANYA AT CHRISTOPHER STREET LIBERATN DAY GAY PRI MARCH, NYC, 1974. PHOTO BY CIDNE HART FOR LIBERATN NEWS SERVICE. PRTED MAJORY REPORT. GETTY REARCH INSTUTE, LA. COVER OF HARMONY HAMMOND, LBIAN ART AMERI; A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (RIZZOLI, NYC, 2000). COVER IMAGE: DYKE, 1993 BY CATHERE OPIE. COVER OF OUR BODI, OURSELV, 1970. IMAGE TWO OM LEFT: COVER OF THE NEW WOMAN’S SURVIVAL SOURCEBOOK, 1975. HARMONY HAMMOND, SELF PORTRA WH BLACK HAT, 1973. GETTY REARCH INSTUTE, LA. ALL IMAG URTY OF HARMONY HAMMOND.MARTHA SHELLEYTHE GAY LIBERATN FRONT -FOUNR, WRER, AND POET ACCINTALLY FOUND HERSELF AT THE STONEWALL RTS. HERE, SHE REFLECTS ON HOW ARTISTIC REPRENTATNS OF LBIANS WERE ALTERED BY THE EVENT.ADVERTISEMENTIN THE YEARS BEFORE STONEWALL, WHEN WOMEN WENT TO A MARCH, THEY HAD TO WEAR SKIRTS, AND MEN WERE SUS AND TI. I HATED . I WAS NOT WEARG SKIRTS NORMALLY. IT WAS SO PHONY: “PLEASE, WE’RE JT LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.” WELL, WE WEREN’T. OR AT LEAST I DIDN’T THK OF MYSELF LIKE THAT. WHEN GAY LIBERATN ME UP, WE WERE SAYG: “WE’RE GONNA BE OUT ON THE STREETS AND YOUR FACE.” WE WOULD GO AS A GROUP TO ANTI-WAR MARCH, OR PICKET AT THE WOMEN’S TENTN CENTER WHEN ANGELA DAVIS WAS THERE. WE HAD MONSTRATNS MANDG OUR RIGHTS AS WHO WE ARE, NOT A SLIGHT VARIATN ON MR. AND MRS. SUBURBIA. BEFORE GAY LIBERATN, IF A MOVIE HAD A GAY CHARACTER, PECIALLY A WOMAN, SHE HAD TO BE KILLED AT THE END. THERE WAS A FILM BASED ON A D.H. LAWRENCE NOVELLA, THE FOX, WH TWO WOMEN —ONE BLON AND ONE BTE. THE BTE IS THE “BUTCH,” THOUGH THEY BOTH LOOK VERY FEME. SHE GETS KILLED THE END, AND THE GUY WALKS OUT WH THE BLON. THAT’S THE KD OF IMAGERY WE GOT. AFTER STONEWALL, THERE WAS AN EXPLOSN OF ART THAT, FOR THE FIRST TIME, REPRENTED A POSIVE WAY. MY POEMS AND SAYS BEME LS ROMANTICIZED AND MORE REALISTIC. I DIDN’T HAVE TO DISGUISE OR MAKE THGS FLOWERY. OVER THE YEARS, I’VE WRTEN THREE HISTORIL NOVELS, A TRILOGY. THERE ARE LBIANS . THEY JT LIVE THEIR LIV AND THEIR STGGL. FOR ME, BEG A LBIAN HAS BEE THE WAY IS AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHG THAT HAS TO BE HIDN. AND I THK MY ART HAS GOTTEN BETTER FOR .IMAG OM LEFT: MARTHA SHELLEY AT THE LAVENR MENACE ACTN 1970. WOMEN’S LIBERATN, 1970. COURTY OF THE ARTIST.THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDTTHE ARTIST, WHO WAS HIS EARLY TWENTI DURG STONEWALL, REFLECTS ON HIS MUNY OF GAY TEENAGE NAWAYS AND MANHATTAN’S DRAG CULTURE.IT WAS LIKE A DIFFERENT CIVILIZATN BACK THEN. GAY TEENAGERS SPOKE A STREET TALK OF THEIR OWN. IT WAS ILLEGAL FOR MEN TO RRY CERTA TYP OF HANDBAGS OR SHOULR BAGS—STEAD, STREET QUEENS WORE PAN AM BAGS OR THE TOURISTY, GRECIAN BAGS. A “HBAND” WAS ANYONE A PERSON WAS HAVG SEX WH AT THE MOMENT. “SRE DRAG” MEANT ALL MEN’S CLOTHG, BUT YOU ULD HAVE EYE MAKP AND BACKB YOUR HAIR: IT WAS AGAST THE LAW IF YOU WEREN’T WEARG AT LEAST THREE ARTICL OF MEN’S CLOTHG.I RAN AWAY OM HOME NEW JERSEY WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER. FORTY-SEND STREET WAS TOO FAST FOR ME—DGGY, A LOT OF HTLG. THE NICE THG ABOUT THE VILLAGE WAS YOU ULD S OUTSI AND READ A BOOK. DOWN THERE, I MET A GROUP OF OTHER GAY TEENAGE NAWAYS. OUR BIGGT ENEMY WAS THE POLICE. WE HAD DIFFERENT LABELS FOR THEM, LIKE LILY LAW, OR LILLIAN, OR LILY. WHEN A P WAS A FOOT AWAY, YOU ULD SAY, “HEY GIRL, THERE’S LILLIAN.” ALL THE WORDS CREATED A WORLD ONLY ME AND MY IENDS ULD UNRSTAND. THERE WAS THIS AREA OF THE VILLAGE, BETWEEN CHRISTOPHER STREET AND THE DOCKS, THAT ULD BE LLED A “GAY GHETTO.” STONEWALL WAS THE MIDDLE OF THAT. ALL DIFFERENT CLASS OF GAY PEOPLE MIXED, AND WAS A VIBRANT PLACE FOR SHARG IAS. STONEWALL WAS IMPORTANT BEE YOU ULD SLOW DANCE THERE, WHICH CREATED A SPACE THAT WASN’T JT ABOUT JUMPG TO HAVG SEX. IT WAS A RUAL SPACE WHERE YOU AND ANOTHER PERSON ULD MUTUALLY CI IF YOU WERE GOG HOME TOGETHER. THERE WAS AN ALTERATN NSCNS. WE WERE DOG THE SAME THG HETEROSEXUALS WERE DOG. IT WAS AN EMBRACE OF PERSONHOOD. AROUND THE TIME OF THE STONEWALL RTS, I STARTED PERFORMG DRAG AS ETHEL DULL (ETHEL SCULL WAS A MAJOR LLECTOR). I’D VE PEOPLE TO WHERE I LIVED AND GIVE A TOUR. I PLAYED MIC AND HAD THE CHALIC AND CROWNS AND TWKLE LIGHTS, WHICH ARE MON THE ART WORLD NOW, BUT NOBODY WAS G THEM THEN—THE ART WORLD HAD NO PLACE FOR ANYTHG GAY. BACK THEN, THE TERM “QUEER” WAS ALWAYS A NEGATIVE THG. IN THE MID- [TO] LATE 1960S, PUBLIC TELLECTUALS LIKE CHARL LUDLAM, CHRISTOPHER STOCKS, AND JACK SMH STARTED TO CHANGE THAT. IT WASN’T VENTED BY AMIA. AMIA SHOULD HAVE MORE HUY. ART DIDN’T CHANGE AFTER STONEWALL—WE CHANGED . IMAGE ONE OM LEFT: THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, MOTHER STONEWALL AND THE GOLN RATS, 1989. STONEWALL IENDS: THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT (TOP LEFT), MART BOYCE (TOP RIGHT), BIR RIVERA (CENTER). IMAGE TWO OM LEFT: THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT SRE DRAG AS ETHEL DULL. THOMAS LANIGAN-SCHMIDT, THE DIALECTIC BETWEEN EROS AND AGAPE, 1989. ALL IMAG URTY OF THE ARTIST AND PAVEL ZOUBOK FE ART, NEW YORK.WENLL WALKERNOW PUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATNS, EXHIBNS, AND SIGN AT THE MM OF THE MOVG IMAGE, WENLL WALKER RELLS THE EMPOWERG ENERGY OF NEW YORK THE AFTER STONEWALL.WHEN I MOVED TO THE CY 1977, STONEWALL WAS ALREADY LEGENDARY. YOU’D HEAR STORI AT THE BAR ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED. THE HEROISM OF , THE FACT THAT THE DRAG QUEENS HAD STOOD UP AND ACTED. WHEN THE MARCH ON WASHGTON HAPPENED 1979, ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RTS, I THK THAT’S WHEN A LOT OF THGS GELLED. THERE WAS AN AMTRAK CHARTERED DOWN TO D.C.— WAS LIKE A GAY EXPRS TRA. THE ENERGY WAS CREDIBLE. I DON’T THK ANY OF HAD EVER EXPERIENCED SOMETHG LIKE THAT. THE IA OF BEG OUT AND PROUD WAS STILL A NEW NCEPT. I GREW UP MISSISSIPPI—OBVLY, NOT A VERY GAY-IENDLY ENVIRONMENT. TO E OUT PUBLIC LIKE THAT, WH SO MANY PEOPLE, WAS VERY EMPOWERG. I THK THE MARCH LNCHED WHAT WE NOW THK OF AS THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT. THEN THE FIRST DAY WHOUT ART 1989 [WHICH UNED ART PROFSNALS RPONDG TO LIV LOST THE AIDS CRISIS] WAS AN AMAZG EVENT. THAT’S WHEN PEOPLE STARTED REALIZG THE IMPACT OF THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT ON CULTURE. IT TOOK SOME TIME FOR STONEWALL TO FLUENCE ART. SOMETIM, EVENTS TAKE A LONG TIME TO BE DIGTED AND FILTERED TO OUR NSCNS. THEY N HAVE MORE RONANCE SEVERAL YEARS LATER.IMAGE PTN: PORTRA OF WENLL WALKER (RIGHT) WH LEON WALLER, AN ARTIST AND HIS PARTNER OF ALMOST 42 YEARS, CIR 1979. COURTY OF WENLL WALKER. ARTHUR TRSTHE PHOTOGRAPHER NTEMPLAT HOW STONEWALL EURAGED HIM TO BREAK AWAY OM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY TO VELOP THE SURREAL, OFTEN QUEER-FLECTED SCEN FOR WHICH HE HAS BEE FAMO.BY 1968, I WAS OUT AS A GAY PERSON, WHICH WAS A LTLE B UNUAL FOR THE TIME, BUT I DIDN’T AL WH GAY SUBJECT MATTER MY WORK. THAT WAS PROBABLY A FANCIAL CISN. I DID DO A SERI 1968 OF GAY MEN CISG EACH OTHER THE RAMBLE NEAR THE BOATHOE CENTRAL PARK. I WOULD GO WH MY MERA AND SHOW PEOPLE TRYG TO PICK EACH OTHER UP OR STANDG AROUND POSG. IT WASN’T UNTIL 1977 THAT I WAS ABLE TO EXHIB AND SHOW THOSE PHOTOS. THE STONEWALL MOVEMENT CREATED A PUBLIC FOR MY WORK. PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERI LIKE THE LLIE-LOHMAN GAY ART FOUNDATN BEGAN TO SHOW GAY ART FOR THE FIRST TIME, WHICH WAS QUE AN EXTRAORDARY THG. JT 10 YEARS AFTER I TOOK THE PHOTOS THE RAMBLE, I WAS ABLE TO EARN A LIVG DOG GAY MATERIAL. THERE WAS A NEW ERA OF GAY MAGAZ LIKE HONCHO, CHRISTOPHER STREET, AND MANDATE. I WORKED FOR THEM ALMOST LIKE A STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER.AFTER STONEWALL, I BEME VOLVED WH CHARL LUDLAM AND THE THEATER OF THE RIDICULO. THAT OPENED ME UP. GAY PEOPLE ARE OFTEN OPEN TO SURREAL, THEATRIL KDS OF MP AND DRAG EXPERIENC. YOU MIGHT SAY THAT DRAG QUEENS’ OVER-THE-TOP THEATRILY LEGIMIZED THAT; THE ARE REALLY POWERFUL PEOPLE WHO HAVE GONE TO THEMSELV AND ARE NOT AAID OF EXPOSG THEIR NER QUEERNS TO EVERYONE BY CROSSDRSG.MY WORK BEGAN TENDG TO A MORE QUEER POT OF VIEW, WHATEVER THAT MEANS. I FELT THAT I DIDN’T HAVE TO BE A MACHO MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHER ANYMORE. IN 1970, I BROKE AWAY OM STREET PHOTOGRAPHY, WHICH HAD ALWAYS BEEN DONE BY THE HETEROSEXUAL GUYS, WH MY SERI “THE DREAM COLLECTOR,” WHICH SHOWS DREAMS OF CHILDREN FLYG, FALLG. IT WAS LIBERATG FOR ME TO BRG MY IMAGATIVE FANTASY LIFE TO MY PHOTOGRAPHY AND PUT THAT ON THE WALL.IMAGE ONE OM LEFT: ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, PETER REED, AND SAM WAGSTAFF AT ARTHUR TRS OPENG, 1979. ARTHUR TRS 2000. MILLENNIAL POSTAGE STAMP MISSNED BY THE ROYAL POST WH GAY THEME. COUPLE MUNICIPAL BUILDG ROOF, NEW YORK, CHRISTOPHER ST. MAGAZE, 1978. IMAGE TWO OM LEFT: ARTHUR TRS, SELF PORTRA, ABRAHAM LLN HIGH SCHOOL, BROOKLYN, 1958. ARTHUR TRS AT THE FIRST GAY PRI PARA, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, 1970. ALL IMAG URTY OF THE ARTIST.MICHELA GRIFFOTHE ARTIST, WHO WAS 20 DURG STONEWALL, REMEMBERS HER ACTIVIST BEGNGS WH THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT, HER FIRST POLIL ARTWORK, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF DANCE.WHEN THE STONEWALL RTS OCCURRED AT NIGHT, I HAD NO IA. I BELIEVE THERE WAS A SMALL ARTICLE— WAS ALL KD OF HH-HH. THERE WAS SO MUCH GOG ON AT THE TIME, OM THE PANTHERS TO THE SDS [STUNTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, AN ANTI-WAR GROUP] UP AT COLUMBIA TO THE YOUNG LORDS [A CIVIL RIGHTS GROUP]. KENT STATE WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. EVERYBODY WAS THE STREETS RTG ABOUT SOMETHG. BUT I WAS ED TO BEG SP ON AND YELLED AT BEE I WAS PART OF THE REDSTOCKGS, THE FIRST GROUP THAT WANTED TO CHANGE ABORTN LAWS NEW YORK. I WAS ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST 12 MEMBERS OF THE NATNAL ORGANIZATN FOR WOMEN (NOW). MY HIGH-SCHOOL SWEETHEART AND I SEPARATED WHEN HE TRODUCED ME TO HIS FAY—RELIG DIFFERENC. IN AUGT OF 1969, I WAS LEAVG A RED STOCKGS MEETG A METHODIST CHURCH AND THIS ATTRACTIVE MOL ASKED ME TO GET FFEE. SHE VED ME TO ANDY WARHOL’S PARTI; HER BT IEND WAS DIVE. I HAD NO IA WE WERE DATG: THE IA OF BEG WH A WOMAN JT WASN’T ON MY RADAR. IN FEBARY OF 1970, SHE KISSED ME. THAT WAS . AT THAT TIME, “LBIAN” WAS THE WORST THG YOU ULD LL A FEMIST. SO MANY NOW WERE CLOSETED.I SAW AN AD THE PAPER FOR THE GAY LIBERATN FRONT. THAT WAS THE BEGNG OF MY GAY ACTIVISM. DRAG QUEENS WERE A FE PART OF OUR CULTURE. I WORKED WH MARSHA [P. JOHNSON] AND SYLVIA [RIVERA]—THEY WERE TWO OF THE GROUP’S FIRST MEMBERS. FEW PEOPLE KNOW THIS, BUT ’S THE LBIANS WHO CLOSED DOWN THE MAFIA-N GAY BARS—THEY WERE ABIVE, THE DRKS WERE EXPENSIVE. FLAVIA RANDO AND I PICKETED AND HAND OUT LEAFLETS. WE WANTED WOMEN TO E TO OUR DANC STEAD, AT ALTERNATE U, DOWN THE STREET OM THE 14TH STREET MAFIA BAR KOOKY’S. ONE NIGHT, SOME MAFSOS SHOWED UP. I SAW THE GUNS! I GAVE OUR SH BOX TO [PHOTOGRAPHER] DONNA GOTTSCHALK AND TOLD HER TO TAKE DOWN THE BACK STAIRS A GARBAGE BAG. I SAID TO THEM, “WE DON’T HAVE ANY MONEY. YOU’RE WELE TO STAY IF YOU LIKE.” IN A MATTER OF WEEKS, THE BARS N BY THE MAFIA WERE CLOSED. FOR THE FIRST GAY PRI MARCH (1970), I MA A POSTER THAT READ “I AM YOUR WORST FEAR; I AM YOUR BT FANTASY.” IT WAS THE FIRST PIECE OF POLIL ART I EVER MA.IMAG OM LEFT: PORTRA OF MICHELA GRIFFO BY ELLEN SHUMSKY; URTY OF THE ARTIST. DIANA DAVI, DONNA GOTTSCHALK HOLDS POSTER “I AM YOUR WORST FEAR I AM YOUR BT FANTASTY” AT CHRISTOPHER STREET GAY LIBERATN DAY PARA, 1970. PHOTO BY DIANA DAVI, MANCRIPTS AND ARCHIV DIVISN, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. COURTY OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. FLAVIA RANDO

Arthur TrsThe photographer ntemplat how Stonewall euraged him to break away om street photography to velop the surreal, often queer-flected scen for which he has bee 1968, I was out as a gay person, which was a ltle b unual for the time, but I didn’t al wh gay subject matter my work.

Summary of Queer ArtAny art that n be nsired "queer" refers to the re-appropriatn of the term the 1980s, when was snatched back om the homophob and opprsors to bee a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the experience of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people. Key Ias & Acplishments Bee of the early crimalizatn of homosexual acts and the social stigma nnected to homosexualy, much Queer Art employs d visual language that would not aroe spicn among the general public but would allow those faiar wh the trop of the subculture to glean the hidn the rise of activism the wake of the Civil Rights protts and the AIDS epimic, Queer Art beme more ank and polil s subject matter, forcg the viewers to regnize queer culture and to unrsre the stutnal equi and hypocrisy that fueled Inty Polics surroundg Queer Art has sparked much bate, wh some artists embracg Inty Polics and other chewg as not important for their work. Mapplethorpe's photography pictg still lif of flowers, celebry and Royal Fay portraure, and pictur of children are well-loved, but his powerful and subversive imag of homoerotic subjects are most notable their power to dramatilly alter perceptns and ph boundari.

"A discsn of the queer experience relatn to art history n beg 1870 when for the first time a paper by German psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Wtphal nsired the experience of "ntrary sexual feelg" which two people were alg wh what would later e to be known as homosexualy. He wrote the History of Sexualy (1976), "The sodome had been a temporary aberratn; the homosexual was now a speci, " htg at a future where the queer experience would bee an important branch of Inty s later, 1895, the Brish thor and playwright Osr Wil was sent to prison for two years after he was nvicted of sodomy, and the trials helped shape an emergent inty of the homosexual artist. "Murals, Graffi, and the Public Space Sculpture provid a way for the queer experience to be lerally brought out of the closet and to the street, as the work of Gee Segal's Gay Liberatn, which was stalled across the street om the old Stonewall Inn Greenwich Village.

LOOKG AT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT THROUGH ART50 YEARS AFTER THE STONEWALL UPRISG, THE JEWISH MM JOS THE STONEWALL 50 CONSORTIUM TO PRENT A SERI OF PROGRAMS MEMORATG THE MOVEMENT’S ANNIVERSARY.THE JEWISH MM·FOLLOWPUBLISHED THE JEWISH MM·4 M READ·JAN 15, 2019--LISTENSHAREROSS BLECKNER, DOUBLE PORTRA (GAY FLAG), 1993. OIL ON NVAS.ON JUNE 28, 1969, ONE OF THE MOST IMPACTFUL MOMENTS FOR THE MORN-DAY GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT OCCURRED — THE STONEWALL UPRISG. IT BEGAN WHEN NE POLICE OFFICERS RAID THE STONEWALL INN, A POPULAR NEW YORK CY GAY BAR LOTED ON CHRISTOPHER STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE. TO THE OFFICERS’ SURPRISE, THE PATRONS WHO WERE REGULAR ATTEN AT THE INN RISTED THEIR ARRT AND FOUGHT BACK. IT WAS THIS MOMENT THAT THE FAMO UPRISG BEGAN.WHETHER DUE TO MORE LAW ENFORCEMENT ARRIVG TO ARRT THOSE AT THE SCENE, OR SUPPORTERS OF THE LGBTQ+ MUNY, THE RTS CED THE ENTIRE UNTRY. THE SIX-DAY EVENT EPTED AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS GAY CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY.AT THE TIME, THE STONEWALL UPRISG UNVEILED THE DISCRIMATN AND VLENCE DIRECTED TOWARDS THE LGBTQ+ MUNY AMERI DURG THE 1960S, WHICH THEN GAVE ROOM TO A BROAR PUBLIC DISURSE NCERNG GAY LIBERATN. BUT WAS EVEN MORE THAN THAT. ITS LEGACY ALSO SERV AS A TIMELS TALYST FOR MARGALIZED PEOPL TO FD THEIR POWER TO FIGHT AGAST JTICE.INSTALLATN VIEW OF THE EXHIBN SCEN OM THE COLLECTN. NY. PHOTO BY: JASON MANLLA50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL, THE JEWISH MM JOS DOZENS OF NON-PROF AND CULTURAL ANIZATNS AS PART OF THE STONEWALL 50 CONSORTIUM, TO PAY TRIBUTE THROUGH A YEAR OF PROGRAMMG, WHILE HIGHLIGHTG WORKS OF ART OM THE JEWISH MM LLECTN THAT EXPLORE THEM OF GENR AND INTY.ON VIEW NOW SCEN OM THE COLLECTN SOME OF THE WORKS CLU: GERT WOLLHEIM’S PORTRA OF A GENR AMBIGUO UPLE WEIMAR GERMANY; ROSS BLECKNER’S ABSTRACT PATG THAT EXPLOR HIS GAY AND JEWISH INTY; AND A SERI OF PATGS BY CHANTAL JOFFE PICTG GAY JEWISH WOMEN OF THE 20TH CENTURY, SUCH AS CL CAHUN, GERT STE, AND SAN SONTAG.CHANTAL JOFFE, SAN SONTAG, 2014. PART OF THE SERI “HANNAH, GERT, ALICE, BETTY, NADE, GOLDA, SAN, CL, NANCY, GRACE, DIANE…” OIL ON BOARD.STONEWALL 50 PROGRAMS AT THE JEWISH MM

Today, more than 48, 000 people have add panels honorg the nam of their lost iends, and has germated to different rnatns around the world, won a Nobel Peace Prize nomatn, and raised $3 ln for AIDS service the face of centuri of reprsn, the public space beme an important new venue for gay artists to display their work. The six-day event epted as one of the most important moments gay civil rights the time, the Stonewall uprisg unveiled the discrimatn and vlence directed towards the LGBTQ+ muny Ameri durg the 1960s, which then gave room to a broar public disurse ncerng gay liberatn.

Photo by: Jason Manlla50 years after Stonewall, the Jewish Mm jos dozens of non-prof and cultural anizatns as part of the Stonewall 50 Consortium, to pay tribute through a year of programmg, while highlightg works of art om the Jewish Mm llectn that explore them of genr and view now Scen om the Collectn some of the works clu: Gert Wollheim’s portra of a genr ambiguo uple Weimar Germany; Ross Bleckner’s abstract patg that explor his gay and Jewish inty; and a seri of patgs by Chantal Joffe pictg gay Jewish women of the 20th century, such as Cl Cahun, Gert Ste, and San Sontag. Stonewall 50 Programs at the Jewish MmOn Thursday, January 17, Eric Marc, Stonewall 50 Consortium founr and creator of the award-wng podst Makg Gay History, will lead a workshop for tors explorg the history of the gay rights movement g a curriculum he has veloped that clus excerpts om his podst.

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(Lanigan-Schmidt’s work is currently on view “Art After Stonewall, 1969–1989, ” a jot exhibn at New York Universy’s Grey Art Gallery and the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art — one of several shows throughout the untry voted to the protts and their aftermath.

This aspect of Stonewall serv as a signpost for me and many other queer folks of my generatn (people who me of age the ’90s) as we ma space wh the mastream gay movement for diverse s of actn and muny such as the Audre Lor Project, the Cl Club, the Lbian Herstory Archiv, as well as groups like South Asian Lbian and Gay Associatn (SALGA) and Gay Asian and Pacific Islanr Men of New York (GAPIMNY) for Stonewall legaci now?

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So y, Stonewall was talked about, but there was really a feelg among lbians and femists — not entirely historilly accurate — that was about men, and that we need our own movement and our own today, I thk the gay inti that have ma to the mastream tend to be mostly male, whe and middle class. 1981My tert the Stonewall rts stems largely om my search for trans forebears, a search for a history the wake of cultural erasure enacted by both assiatnist gay rights movements and by the domant, heteronormative, whe supremacist culture of the Uned Stat.

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1983 and 1980, rpectively)I thk we n trace most aspects of how we live our liv as a gay married uple and socially engaged artists back to Stonewall, om our feelg that as queer artists is our rponsibily to make overtly polil work to our belief that the fight for equal rights remas both val and primary body of work is an ongog seri of stallatns ma rponse to pre-Stonewall queer histori om each state.

’s Grey Art Gallery through July 20, 2019, 100 Washgton Square East, New York,, and at the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art through July 21, 2019, 26 Wooster Street, New York, “Stonewall 50” is on view at the Contemporary Arts Mm Hoton through July 28, 2019, 5216 Montrose Boulevard, Hoton, Tex., “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall, ” is on view at the Brooklyn Mm through Dec. Photography emerged as a particularly ccial vehicle for creasg lbian and gay visibily, as such artists as Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar, Nan Gold, Bill Jabson, Mark Morrisroe and Jack Pierson turned their lens on the LGBTQ life unfoldg around them, poetilly documentg their iends, lovers and nightlife wh the kd of timacy afford only to sirs. “There was a big drive to document gay and lbian and transgenr muni and subcultur and dividuals, and the mera was readily available to do that, ” says Jonathan Weberg, curator and director of rearch at the Mrice Sendak Foundatn and the curator of the 2019 show “Art after Stonewall: 1969– 1989” at the Llie-Lohman Mm of Art.

As aler Jim Hedg, of Hedg Projects, explas, Warhol had Victor Hugo, his assistant, brg men to the Factory so he uld photograph them: “Warhol would make the imag —never gettg himself dirty, always separated by the mera — of every fetishistic thg one uld image wh gay men. “While ‘out’ gay whe men, and to a lser gree whe lbian women, began to receive cril attentn om the art world the neteen eighti and neti, has not been until recently that thgs have opened up to clu more queer artists of lor and more trans voic the visual arts and beyond, ” Santos says.

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Multimedia artist Tuday Slie digs to the history of trans-femist activism and genr-fluidy lerature, while Lissa Rivera photographs her trans partner, and abstract pater Zoe Walsh digal procs to gradually transform hyper-mascule imag appropriated om gay porn to genrls on. In an UK Gay News op-ed piece, Baker wrote: “In my view the rabow flag is unfished, as the movement reprents, an arc that begs well before me, s breadth far broar than all of our experienc put together, reachg the fartht rners of the world wh a msage of solidary and a bean of hope for those who follow our footsteps. They are perhaps most famo for their image of three terracial upl (straight, gay and lbian) kissg above the ptn “Kissg Don’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, ” as well as their work at the 1990 Venice Biennale where they juxtaposed two billboards: the image of the Pope wh a text about the church’s anti-safe-sex rhetoric; the other a two-foot-high erect penis wh texts about women and ndom e.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group Germany.Gerber’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom,” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Landmark.The Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, 1938.The gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few tim.For example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively heterosexual.The Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.