DONNA GOTTSCHALK, IMAGES FROM “BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL OUTLAWS”
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

DONNA GOTTSCHALK, IMAGES FROM “BRAVE, BEAUTIFUL OUTLAWS”

Donna Gottschalk, a photographer active in the early period of radical lesbian organizing in New York and California during the 1970s. Gottschalk came out as a lesbian right at the formation of the radical lesbians and Furies collectives on the east coast, where she met lesbian artists JEB (Joan E. Biren), Flavia Rando, and others, and later moved to California to join lesbian-separatist communities…

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SABELO MLANGENI, COUNTRY GIRLS, 2003-2009
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

SABELO MLANGENI, COUNTRY GIRLS, 2003-2009

Glamour and grittiness combine in Sabelo Mlangeni's Country Girls series, an intimate portrait of gay life in the countryside. Mlangeni took the photographs in small towns and rural areas in the Mpumalanga province. Driefontein, Ermelo, Bethal, Piet Retief, Standerton and Sekunda - nodes of mining, agriculture, forestry, and coal-fed power stations….

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VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999
FILM Megan Christiansen FILM Megan Christiansen

VAGINAL DAVIS, THE WHITE TO BE ANGRY, 1999

Vaginal Davis’s touchstone work, The White to be Angry, challenges white supremacy culture in the United States through irony and pastiche. Davis is a key figure in the history of queer music, performance, and video art, whose work bridged the queer performance and punk club scenes of Los Angeles in the late 1970s…

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AUSTN FISCHER, JESTERS GENDER GAME
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

AUSTN FISCHER, JESTERS GENDER GAME

Jesters Gender Game, a celebration of historical queer artists' fearless exploration of gender performance. This photographic project draws inspiration from visionaries like Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, who challenged gender norms through provocative self-portraits…

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DILLON BRYANT, BLACK HILLS
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

DILLON BRYANT, BLACK HILLS

My practice explores constructions of home, desire, family mythologies, and the landscape in relation to the LGBT+ experience through collage and photography. Taken and found images sourced from family albums, maps, guide books, magazines, and other archives are reorientated to examine the legacies of western expansion and mining in the American West with focus on sites in South Dakota (SD) and California…

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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, SEX SERIES, 1988-89
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, SEX SERIES, 1988-89

Working in New York City’s East Village during the late 1980s, Wojnarowicz created art that was both intensely political and deeply personal. The Sex Series emerged from an overwhelming sense of loss—of loved ones, of privacy…

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GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

GEORGE PLATT LYNES, SELECT NUDES

George Platt Lynes was a renowned American fashion and commercial photographer who enjoyed the prime of his career during the 1930s and 1940s. Although he was very sought after by major fashion publications for his beautiful images and stunning compositions, his real passion was the male nude, which he photographed extensively in the privacy of his studio…

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IMANI DENNISON AND LATETRA METTS-OWENS, NAKED TRUTH
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

IMANI DENNISON AND LATETRA METTS-OWENS, NAKED TRUTH

In the series titled “Naked Truth,” a collaboration between fine artist Latetra Metts-Owens and Photographer, Imani Dennison, explores the truth behind people naked selves. In phase one of this project, subjects were interviewed and recorded on film, revealing things about themselves that were both uncomfortable and secret…

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ZOJA KALINOVSKIS, UNSEEN
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

ZOJA KALINOVSKIS, UNSEEN

Inspired by classical sculpture, Unseen portrays disabled bodies with reverence - as worthy of art instead of objects of pity. The series challenges the narrative that disability is synonymous with suffering and seeks to dismantle societal prejudices.

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ALIREZA SHOJAIAN, WRESTLING SERIES, 2015
PRINTMAKING Megan Christiansen PRINTMAKING Megan Christiansen

ALIREZA SHOJAIAN, WRESTLING SERIES, 2015

Alireza SHOJAIAN is an Iranian artist, born in Tehran in 1988. He began his career in Tehran and Beirut and has been based in Paris since 2019. His work aims to challenge societal prejudices against non-heteronormative masculine identities…

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MARLON RIGGS, BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T, 1995
FILM Megan Christiansen FILM Megan Christiansen

MARLON RIGGS, BLACK IS...BLACK AIN'T, 1995

The final film by filmmaker Marlon Riggs, BLACK IS…BLACK AIN'T, jumps into the middle of explosive debates over Black identity. White Americans have always stereotyped African Americans. But the rigid definitions of "Blackness" that African Americans impose on each other, Riggs claims, have also been devastating…

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JEFFERY JIN, A PORTAL HOME
PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen PHOTOGRAPHY Megan Christiansen

JEFFERY JIN, A PORTAL HOME

A Portal Home is the product of a precarious situation that weaves together pictures taken within a six-month period in China, 2023. Portraits of my grandparents in Hefei
collide with photographs from queer encounters in Shanghai to tell a story of compounded origins, redefining everything I once considered home…

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