This powerful collection-which captures the energy, humour and humanity of the ground-breaking protests that surrounded the Stonewall Riots-celebrates the diversity of the LGBT rights movement, both in the subjects of the photos and by presenting Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies' distinctive work and perspectives in conversation with each other. A preface, captions and part introductions from curator Jason Baumann provide illuminating historical context. And an introduction from best-selling author Roxane Gay speaks to the continued importance of these iconic photos of resistance.
Roxane Gay is the author of five books, including the best-selling Bad Feminist. She lives in Los Angeles, California. Jason Baumann coordinates the New York Public Library's LGBT Initiative, for which he has curated multiple exhibitions, including one on the photography of Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies and their historical context. He lives in New York City.
Title: Love and Resistance - Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era
Author: Davies, Diana,Lahusen, Kay Tobin,Baumann, Jason,Gay, Roxane
ISBN: 9781324002062
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Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Publication Date: 2019-04-05
Number of Pages: 224
Weight: 0.7022 kg
... a collection of over 100 powerful images capturing the LGBTQ civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and the protests that surrounded the pivotal Stonewall riots. -- All About History
Love and Resistance contains no photographs from Stonewall - not because Stonewall doesn't matter but because the community was bound to erupt at some point, and the conditions undergirding that inevitability are of more importance to the edition than the eruption itself. It is also the only book here to focus primarily on queer women, whose contributions to gay liberation are often minimized when the focus is on Stonewall (the bar was primarily for white, cisgender men). Instead, we find personal portraits leading up to, surrounding, and following on from the events of that summer... -- Times Literary Supplement
