Looking For Langston Trailer | Isaac Julien
Looking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film directed by Isaac Julien. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic story line celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and cultural period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York. The film is a short, running about 42 minutes.
In 1957, Dr. Frank Kameny, along with gay rights pioneer Jack Nichols, co-founded the Mattachine Society of Washington, one of the first gay rights organizations in the United States.
The Mattachine Society fought for equal treatment of gay employees in the federal government, the repeal of sodomy laws, and the removal of homosexuality as a mental disorder in the American Psychiatric Association’s manual of mental disorders.
On this day, 48 years ago, April 17, 1965, Kameny and Nichols, the Mattachine Society and along with members of the Daughters of Bilitis, launched the first gay and lesbian protest in front of the White House demanding equality. Read More >
![NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1996: Photography Retrospective
I had the opportunity [with 2 million others] to attend the display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in October 1996, which was to be the final time the quilt would be shown in its entirety at one location.
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It was an extraordinary time politically and personally, empowering and at times overwhelming.
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While I wanted to pull these images together in observance of World AIDS Day this year, these photos are relevant today or any day, and cannot be forgotten.
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I had the opportunity [with 2 million others] to attend the display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in October 1996, which was to be the final time the quilt would be shown in its entirety at one location.
…
It was an extraordinary time politically and personally, empowering and at times overwhelming.
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While I wanted to pull these images together in observance of World AIDS Day this year, these photos are relevant today or any day, and cannot be forgotten.
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Art + Positive, Stonewall 20th Anniversary sticker, 1990.
Sylvia Rivera kicking ass on stage after some radfems & transphobes tried to refuse her the right to speak at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day rally. Said radfems then had their own march in part protesting trans participation in Pride. A precursor to today’s Dyke March.
40 years later in the very same park trans women are still fighting for space within Pride as this year’s Dyke March fiasco demonstrated. I’m feeling challenged and troubled by the narrative that trans women’s response to transphobia must take the “form of serious, calm, point by point analyses of why radfems are wrong” as Stephen Ira pointed out.
What strikes me about this video is that she isn’t trying to be calm and collected after being attacked. She’s not internalizing the notion that fighting transphobia has to take on the oppressive notion of “respectability.”
These conversations have left me wondering: has the non profit industrial complex and professionalized activism gentrified our political activity?
So within all of that, I say: nothing but love and power to trans women creating space for ourselves in queer community! Special shout out to Voz who inspired this post!
yes yes yes amazing!!!
also here’s an mp3 recording of Reina’s presentation (titled Y’all Better Quiet Down! Disruptive Discourses in Movements for Gender Self-Determination) which included this video, from the We Who Feel Differently symposium in May.
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Hidden in the Open
A Photographic Essay of Afro American Male Couples from the Distant Past
2010 © Trent Kelley
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1982 NBC news report on AIDS
Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp in his favourite diner on the Lower Eastside of New York City.
Photo: Piers Allardyce/Alpha 065000 09.04.99
Gat Activists Alliance, Albany 1971
