My First NYC Pride march

Not sure why I had stayed away from marching in a Pride Parade for so long; decades, to be honest. But I'd been a member of NYC's Gay Center for a number of years, and had become active in certain programs. When my fellow Center members…

Glave, "Fraternities"

Glave, "Fraternities"

Barron and Gittings 1974

Barron and Rosen 1975

Anita Cornwell

Rosalie Davies

Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, June 11, 1836, by Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong'o

Two historians, Jonathan Ned Katz and Tavia Nyong’o, present and analyze the story and visual depiction of Peter Sewally/Mary Jones, a Black transgender person in New York City, in 1836. First published on OutHistory in 2017.

Vaginal Davis: "VD as PS"

Anarchy Andi's Tattoo

Lezley Saar: "The Con Art of Peter Sewally"

Minstrel Show: Howard and Griffin

Life in Philadelphia (Unnumbered)

Life in Philadelphia, No. 12

Life in Philadelphia, No. 11

Clay: Life in Philadelphia

Henry Robinson

Jewett

Greene Street map

Mary Jones Lithograph

Bars and the Queer Economy, 2017, by Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchel

Writing about queer bars and drag culture in the 1972 classic Mother Camp, Esther Newton observed that queer communities had “an economics but no economy.” In this exhibit, Jeffrey Escoffier and Christopher Mitchell address the economics of gay bars…