#DrawingPride for the month of June! Day 23: #Unity I had the honor of art directing and coloring th

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 23: #Unity
I had the honor of art directing and coloring this illustration for #ServingPride drawn by the amazing @bixby_baron “Out In Public” illustrates the ways queer people from the early 1900s would find one another through codes and signals.

From Serving Pride: “The first queer subcultures arose among working class people who, unlike elites, did not have space to socialize in their homes. Instead, they found privacy in public: Saloons, street corners, rooftops. Sound familiar?
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Then, as now, there was no single queer community, only a multiplicity of queer spaces and networks following the contours of a country divided by race, sex, and class.
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These queer networks helped fuel bohemian movements throughout the 1920s, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood.”
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