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March
Culture Series:
Rick Castro
" The
Perfect Gentleman "
Rick, a leader in counterculture art, fetish photography & independent film for over 25 years, will share his images, visions about fetish, & views on subculture & how they are defining the 21st century.
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909 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(213) 741-0094
Sunday, March 20, 2010
2:00pm-5:00pm
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Greetings!
ONE continues to achieve remarkable milestones in our quest to collect, protect and share the history of LGBT people!
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 | Treasures from ONE's Art Collection Provoke Debate
| ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives joins Onya Hogan-Finlay, Master of Fine Art (MFA) candidate at The University of Southern California's Roski School of Fine Arts in presenting her exhibit ONE Offs: My Taste In Men: Examining Hidden Treasures from the ONE Archives Art Collection Through the Lens of Gender.
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The exhibit includes protest, placards, photos, fanzines and FBI files on artists who were blacklisted for their suspected involvement in the early homophile culture. "I have strategically juxtaposed artwork by men with archival material of women," said Hogan-Finlay. "By installing archival material such as a reproduction of the early lesbian journal Vice Versa along with a video interview of the journal's editors Lisa Ben and activist/artist Donna M. Smith, beside the paintings of Sidney Bronstein, a gay male artist whose life work contributed to Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reseach, the disparity between genders represented in the Collections is highlighted." Hogan-Finlay incorporated into the design of the exhibition custom wallpaper that interprets the life of transgender philanthropist and ONE benefactor Reed Erickson through a graphic pictorial narrative.Archivist Loni Shibuyama and Visual Art Collections Curator Mia Locks from ONE Archives will contribute counterpoint and context to the show by examining works from ONE's collection by lesbian and transgender artists who are underrepresented in ONE Archives' collection.
For more information Please see the press release on our Media web page. The show runs from March 21 through March 25, 2011 at The Gayle and Ed Roski Master of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, IFT Building at 3001 S Flower Street. See the press release for the special closing reception presentations.
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LGBT History at ONE:
National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays
| By Loni Shibuyama, M.A. Archivist
In 1978, a group from the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas starting meeting to discuss providing advocacy and support for the African American gay and lesbian community. Amidst the energetic political activism in the 1970s GLBT movement, the idea of a national organization specifically for African American and Third World communities started taking shape. By 1979, the first National Coalition of Black Gays (later renamed National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays) was founded, with chapters in Washington D.C., Baltimore and Detroit. In its first year, the newly organized NCBG put together a particularly historic event at the National March on Washington for gay and lesbian rights in October 1979. In the months leading up to the march, NCBG and other activists worked to ensure that the African American community and other communities of color would be represented at the March on Washington events. As a result, the NCBG sponsored the first Third World Lesbian/Gay Conference. The Third World Conference organizers strived to be inclusive, and for the duration of the March on Washington events, African, Asian, Latino/a, and Native Americans were invited to the Harambee House, near Howard University, to participate in workshops and entertainment. 
Audre Lorde was the keynote speaker for the conference, and on October 14th, the members of the conference marched together down Georgia Avenue to join the main march to the National Mall. This flyer from the that first Third World Conference, as well as photographs from the 1979 March on Washington, can be found in ONE's extensive subject file collection. For information on how to research this or any other archival collections, please visit the"Collections" page on our website, or contact us. ONE Archives actively collects records of all kinds reflecting the experience of LGBT people of color. To learn how to donate your precious materials, now or in the future, please write to askone@onearchives.org,and we will contact you. |
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