Two exhibitions in New York and London take a good hard look at marginalized LGBT groups, one historic and one contemporary.
The Making of a Queer Mecca at Leslie/Lohman Gallery in New York (September 15 – October 23, 2009)
A new exhibition of the early work of San Francisco’s Rink Foto, who was a friend and photographer of Harvey Milk, Robert Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol. The show selects from Foto’s almost half a million images to tell the story of the City by the Bay’s ascendancy into becoming an epicenter of the 1970s gay and lesbian movement.
Ethnic Minorities Coming Out traveling exhibition at various locations in London (2009-2010, more info here)
According to her website, “Sonalle thirsts for a deeper knowledge and understanding of universal life and society.” Her series that depicts members of ethnic groups in Britain who are also LGBT is traveling to various venues in London for the next year.
The stories, which accompany the images, are very stirring and sometimes heroic.
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