Contents:
- I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
Performance, Prott & Polics: the Art of Gilbert BakerOne of the origal eight-lor rabow flags flyg at Uned Natns Plaza durg San Francis Gay Freedom Day 1978. This onle exhibn is part of the GLBT Historil Society Mm’s exhibn San Francis, -curated by Joanna Black and Jeremy Prce, and featur a short film by Vcent Guzzone lled Love Gilbert, which documents Baker’s efforts for gay rights activism.
Photograph: Lenore ChnLast year was the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg and this year, the GLBT Historil Society San Francis has a 50 Years of Pri exhibn, featurg roughly 50 photos om the cy’s pri paras om the 1970s onward, as well as highlights om the legalizatn of gay marriage. The artist pats young gay men hangg out nightclubs, downtown apartments and bars, often tged wh a green-hued palette (which lls to md the works of French artist Henri Touloe-Ltrec). Queer men, who have wanted to donate blood durg the panmic, were banned om dog so until April, when the US Food and Dg Admistratn updated their policy to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood – if they are celibate for three months.
”Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond StonewallA ‘Gay is Good’ button om 1968 om the llectn of Frank Kameny. Photograph: Courty of the Smhsonian’s Natnal Mm of Amerin HistoryAn ongog onle exhibn wh the Natnal Mm of Amerin History Washgton trac the history of gay rights and activism.
WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
Though the exhibn opened last summer to memorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, the digal ponent clus artefacts om the 19th century onward, cludg prott signs, the first trans pri flag, Aids-related lab equipment, oral histori, Billie Jean Kg’s tennis drs and ephemera om the llectn of Frank Kameny, who staged the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe. “There is no one, unified gay history; what all gay people have shared across time is the stggle for the right to be themselv and the mm has been documentg the stori for s, ” said the mm’s curator, Kathere Ott. “Today, gay Amerins have achieved so much, yet many people are unaware of how happened.
Her slishow The Ballad of Sexual Depenncy (first publicly shown at the Whney Biennial 1985) picts her iends, fay, and lovers—cis- and transgenr men and women; straight upl, homosexual upl, sgle subjects—wh unflchg equaly all around. Her recent work, however, is also particularly poignant posg the subject matter she is known for (not straight or gay relatnships, but rather relatnships, as such) nversatn wh art historil exploratns of a siar the Htler’s work pulls om the Che “Red Strg” belief that the gods tie an visible red rd between two people who are sted to marry. Explorg her own homosexualy as a theoretil ncept, Cron took on her experience as a married lbian for her tenr and bold Memorial to a Marriage (2002).
The tle qualifi the monument: opposg those that might argue if this is a marriage at all, this is not a memorial to marriage, self, but to a marriage; the dividualizatn of Cron and Kass’s lived experience is stmental to unrstandg the emotnal and potentially polil impact of the 'Shaz' Mthunzu, Daveytown, JohannburgYancey Richardson GalleryLedi ModiseYancey Richardson GalleryStrivg to ph agast the notn that homosexualy is mutually exclive om the Ain inty, Muholi creat strikg black-and-whe photographs of the lbian muny her native untry.