#queersinexileexhibit
‘Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth’ WON the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art Group Exhibition of the Yearaward!
Curated by Coalition for Queer Youth founder, Alexis Heller
CONGRATULATIONS to contributing artists Samantha Box, Gerard H. Gaskin, Sean Coleman, Michael Roberson, Robert Sember,Richard Renaldi, Andy Warhol, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Carol Polcovar, Rich Wandel, Leonard Fink, Diana Davies, Vanguard Revisited Project, The Hear Me ROAR! Project and Whose Streets, Our Streets! It was your great work that helped make these legacies visible.
THANK YOU Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson!
THANK YOU Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and the Fresh Fruit Festival!
THANK YOU to everyone who voted!
And to the past, present and future queer young people on the street, WE SEE YOU, WE HEAR YOU, YOU MATTER!
Full List of the 2013 MOTHA Awardees
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’A HOUSE IS MY HOME’ - A House/Ballroom Community Investigation
Thursday, July 25th, 6-8:30pm, NYC
‘A House is My Home’ will bring together a panel of Ballroom members from multiple generations to explore the Ballroom scene’s understanding of family, community and what it means to create and provide a home.
The House/Ballroom Scene is a creative collective and kinship system established and sustained by Black and Latino/a transgender, lesbian, bisexual and gay individuals. While the modern ballroom scene was constituted almost 50 years ago, its roots are in the Harlem Renaissance and the strategies of survival and creative expression developed during slavery.
PANELISTS INCLUDE: The Pioneer Icon Junior Labeija, The Pioneer Icon Michael Dupree, The Icon Sean Ebony, The Legendary Mariah Lopez and The Up and Coming Janovia Garçon. MODERATED BY: Father Michael Roberson Garçon and Robert Sember.
Portraits from GERARD GASKIN’S 20+ years photographing the House/Ballroom scene will also be on view!
'A House is My Home’ is presented in partnership with the Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth exhibit, curated by Coalition for Queer Youth founder, Alexis Heller.
#QueersInExileExhibit explores the personal histories, creativity and activism of LGBTQ street-involved youth from the Stonewall riots of 1969 to today.
At:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
Through July 28th. The museum is open Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.
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AboutVogue'ology:
In 2009, members of the Ballroom community and the sound-art collective, Ultra-red, initiated Vogue’ology, a collaborative project that builds on the Ballroom scene’s long history of self-organized creative innovation and struggle against transphobia, homophobia, gender oppression and health and other disparities. Vogue'ology includes the Arbert Santana Ballroom Archive and Oral History Project and has organized numerous exhibitions, panels, workshops and presentations in the U.S. and internationally. The initiative has also offered classes at The New School’s Eugene Lang College.
AboutDestination Tomorrow:
Founded by Sean Ebony Coleman, Destination Tomorrow is a grassroots organization providing services to the large community of LGBTQ residents in the South Bronx. Founded in 2008, Destination Tomorrow has been dedicated to offering culturally competent support to the underserved transmale population, House/Ballroom scene and all queer youth ages 13-25, through groups, counseling, HIV/AIDS testing and prevention campaigns, as well as advocacy efforts at the state and local level. For more information visit www.destinationtomorrow.org.
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“LGBT Homeless Youth Documented in ‘Queers in Exile’ at the Leslie-Lohman Museum”
Published by The Huffington Post, 7/16/13
An exhibition entitled “Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth” will provide a historical narrative and abundance of images to the long-silenced tale of homeless queer youth.
The exhibition, curated by Alexis Heller, will illuminate the untold street stories from 1969’s Stonewall riots to present day, revealing years of persecution, determination and hope. From pop master Andy Warhol to LGBTQ documentary photographer Samantha Box, the selected artists capture the all too invisible generations of survivors, creators and revolutionaries who call the streets their home.
The show takes its name from Sylvia Rivera’s essay “Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones,” which demands respect and change for LGBTQ communities. In the spirit of Rivera’s essay, the Leslie Lohman Museum explains how their exhibition does not just seek to revisit the past but change the present and what is to come.
“It is a view of history told by those who live/lived it within a community often silenced and ignored, but the vision goes beyond visibility. It is about collective memory and conscience, and repositioning queer homeless young people from 'other’ to 'our own’… It offers homeless youth a place by grounding them within an empowered history and lineage, honors their struggle, and reflects that they matter.”
“Queers in Exile” runs from July 18 – July 28, 2013 at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.
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Submitted by GIANNI, Age 21, New York
Poem
My friends and family
please forgive me
this is just not where my home is
Against the procured stigmas
I promise I’m strong enough to be
androgynous;
Into the night I’m chasing my destiny
Soon if I’m not dead
I’ll be famous
About:
After leaving Minneapolis on his own, Gianni wrote this piece on the bus, as he was about to enter New York City for the first time. Currently staying at a queer youth shelter, Gianni submitted this work for inclusion in the Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youthexhibit, opening July 17th.
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