October 11, 2016

New Museum Debut!

It was a honor for me to be including last week in a multi-media reading at NYC’s New Museum. The event was part of a series called “Lost & Found,” examining the impact of AIDS on generations of artists. (Curated by dance world visionary Ishmael Houston-Jones.)

In keeping with the theme, I showed photos from The Drag Explosion about the underground magazine I used to publish, My Comrade. Founded in 1987, at the peak of the AIDS crisis, the magazine featured a campy militant format that heralded drag queens as heroes of the gay revolution.

 

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Showing my slideshow.

 

All the panelists were fantastic, and it was very cathartic to share and discuss our collective loss–and celebrate our survival!

 

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Panel discussion after the presentation.

 

(I borrowed the event photos above. Thanks to the photographers!)