PRIDE is timeless
sources for photographs:
Bluebirds - Kitty Ely class of 1887 (left) and Helen Emory class of 1889, Mount Holyoke students, via vintagephoto.livejournal.com. Source for image.
Cats - Nusch Éluard and Sonia Mossé. Paris. 1935 Photographer: Man Ray. Source for image.
Chipmunks - Source for image.
Deer - Source for image.
Dogs - Source for image.
Foxes, dancing - Photograph by Thurston Hopkins, Tango in the East End, London, 1954. Source for image.
Foxes, dapper - Source for image.
Frogs - Photograph from a collection called “Hidden in the Open,” curated by Trent Kelley. Source for image.
Giraffes - “Tough Threads.” Ken Russell photographed Teddy Girls in London -1950s. Source for image.
Hedgehogs - Chuck Rowland & Harry Hay (Apr. 7, 1912 – Oct. 24, 2002), 1983. © Stephen Stewart, via @onearchives. Harry Hay was the visionary behind the queer liberation movement in the U.S. With his background in leftist politics, Hay merged the revolutionary idea of homosexuals as an “oppressed cultural minority” with the fundamentals of organizing. (verbiage by lgbt_history… read more here).
Lions - I found this image on the internet in 2017 and have not been able to relocate it since.
Octopus - Circa 1970 by Donna Gottschalk. Source for image.
Otters - Source for image.
Polar Bears - Source for image.
Rabbits, mm - Source for image.
Rabbits, ww - Source for image.
Raccoons - Photographed by Kay Tobin, circa 1977. Source for image.
Red Pandas - Mariana Romo Carmona and June Chan (b. June 6, 1956), New York City, 1988. Photo © Robert Giard Foundation. (read more about these activists here)
Seagulls - Source for image.
Skunks - Photograph from the etsy shop The Vintage Image Boutique.
Sloths - Castro Street Fair, San Francisco, California, August 17, 1980. Photo © Paul Fusco. (read more about this street fair here)
Snow Leopards - Gay Pride Day, NYC 1980 / © Stanley Stellar.
The Affectionate Animal series is a project I have worked on for years, illustrating vintage photographs of queer couples. All paintings are by me, Erin Darling. Here is a link to the series on my site.
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WE ARE QUEER: VISUAL ARCHIVE PROJECT
For the world, for our families, for our friends, we have always been a subject of curiosity, bullying, and harassment.
But we are sick of this. We, Queer people, are sick of complying with the rules, the social fabric and the society, that can’t see us happy, that can’t see us in love, that can’t see us living our life, the way we want to.
For almost two decades, Nepali queer people have been fighting for equal rights, regardless of the fact that that society and the country have always made them, migrant to their own home. They have been silenced, beaten, harassed, and even killed. They faced discrimination and humiliation from their friends, families, society and the state. But still, nothing has stopped them. Their determination and perseverance are exemplary, and not only are they marching the flags for themselves, but they are definitely making things easy for the future generation as well.
To honour those people who have been fighting for equality, both on the frontline or in silent wars against queerphobia, we the team of Kaalo.101, initiated this visual archive project, WE ARE QUEER for this year’s Pride month.
The archive project is a documentation of Nepal’s queer movement, celebrating both small and big wins. It primarily is an online visual archive and showcases pictures of queer people, their struggles, their celebrations and many more.
With our collaborative effort, we hope to be successful in this project and hold space for discourses and create platforms for archiving queer history.
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Self Portrait/Pervert (1994), followed by Self Portrait/Nursing (2004) both by Catherine Opie.
i have been deeply obsessed with catherine’s work for a minute now, but these two images in particular, side by side, keep echoing in my head the past few days. the more i look and think about them the more i love them. the scarring in the second piece!!! just wow!!! the way that the passage of time is reflected on the body is a huge point of interest for me right now. the blurring of the tattoo, the scarring providing a thread of connection to a former self. the madonna and the whore and what lies in between. one day i will feel more eloquent and write pages and pages about this set of images…but until then i have to at least share them with the void to satisfy myself a tiny bit.
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PRIDE is timeless
New images for 2024. See previous years here.
sources for photographs:
Axolotls - Photograph from Trent Kelley’s Flickr stream “Hidden in the Open: Photographic Essay of Afro American Male Affections.” Source for image.
Bears - Bearded men together. Source for image.
Chipmunks - Unknown photographer, Wikimedia commons. Source for image.
Dogs - Aunty Mary and her “friend” Ruth (1910) by imgur user izgs. Source for Image.
Ducks - Photograph by David Deitcher, from his book “Dear Friends, American Photographs of Men, 1840–1918.” Source for image.
Mice - Lily Elise and Adrienne Augarde (1907). Source for image.
Snails - Nana & Jacky, Métro Blanche (1961), by Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm. Source for image.
Unicorns - Two African American women, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing each other (1900). From the African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition. Source for image.
The Affectionate Animal series is a project I have worked on for years, illustrating vintage photographs as queer couples. All paintings are by me, Erin Darling. Here is a link to the series on my site.
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