The exhibition from PHOTOLA now moves to West Hollywood-
Long Hall Gallery-Plummer Park
1200 N Vista St, West Hollywood, CA 90046
opening reception- Saturday, February 8th 6-9:30 (thru march 4th)
live auction hosted by comedian Deven Green
Special Appearance by the Princess Ra
DJ by Paul V With the support of the City of West Hollywood benefit art auction for the Trevor Project and the ONE Archives Foundation. admission is free.
over 50LGBTQ photographers from an international competition & Wall of Fame.
SHOW SOME LOVE by coming out and supporting the Queer Biennial 2020 at the LOVE4LOVE fundraiser! Saturday, February 8th from 8pm until late at Ace Hotel/Segovia Hall located at 929 S Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles.
A CONVIVIAL GATHERING of queer artists and communities out to support QUEER ART & CULTURE. There will be dancing, libation, happenings, and art to view (and purchase). Dance to retro 70s, 90s and housy beats by DJs Eliseo & BAE BAE.
Tickets for the fundraiser are $20-50 sliding scale and all proceeds go directly towards supporting the shipping, materials, and production costs for the 2020 Queer Biennial. Click here to buy your tickets!
LOVE4LOVE A fundraiser for Queer Biennial 2020 Saturday, February 8 from 8PM-late $20-50 sliding scale* Buy Tickets
Ace Hotel/Segovia Hall 929 S. Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90015
*Want to attend but short on cash?
Shoot a message to michael@navel.la and we'll do our best to accommodate.
The Queer Biennial is an international survey focusing on current moments in out/queer/LGBT art and culture that showcases emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Featured work includes installation, film, live performance, and historical documentation. The Queer Biennial is an ARTIST-RUN COLLECTIVE founded in 2012 firmly planted here in Los Angeles, with satellite cities around the world. Venues for the fourth iteration in Los Angeles from May- July 2020 include: Ace Hotel, Arruyar, Last Projects, Lethal Amounts, Lisa Derrick Fine Art, NAVEL, One Archives and the Tom of Finland Foundation.
On June 28th, 1969, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera led the Stonewall riots, which were the catapult for the contemporary LGBT rights movement.
Four years later, Sylvia and Marsha were pushed out of the movement and had to fight for the right to have space in Gay Pride parades. Sylvia fought her way on stage at the 1973 Gay Pride march in NYC to deliver a speech that denounces the liberal white gay rights "revolution" and demanded and ACTUAL revolution, one in which QTPOC, specifically, Trans women of color, were centered. I think of this today, and anytime we talk about Pride™️: how far have we really come when Queer and/or Trans People of Color still have to fight to be heard in greater LGBT spaces?
The upload deleted the captions so here's the transcript:
[crowd noise: booing and yelling]
Sylvia: Yall better quiet down! I've been trying to get up here ALL day for your gay brothers and your gay sisters in jail! that write me every motherfuckin week and ask for your help. and you all don't do a goddamn thing for them. Have you ever been beaten up? And raped? and jailed? Now think about it. They've been beaten up and raped And so they have to spend much of their money in jail to get their self home and try to get their sex change. The women have tried to fight for their sex changes, or to become women, of the women's liberation. And they write S.T.A.R., not the women's group. They do not write women. They do not write men. They write to S.T.A.R., because we're trying to do something for them. I have been to jail! I have been r*ped! And beaten. Many times! By men! Heterosexual men, that do not belong in the homosexual shelter. But: do you do anything for them? No! You all tell me to go and hide my tail between my legs.
I will not no longer put up with this shit.
I have been beaten, I have had my nose broken, I have been thrown in jail, I have lost my job, I have lost my apartment, for gay liberation.
And you all treat me this way?? What the fuck's wrong with you all??
Think about that!
[crowd noise: applause]
I do not believe in a revolution, but you all do. I believe in the gay...power. I believe in us getting our rights or else I would not be out there fighting for our rights.
That's all I wanted to say to you all people.
If you all want to know about the people that are in jail, and do not forget Bambi L'Amour, Andora Marks, Kenny Messner, and other gay people are in jail, come and see the people at S.T.A.R. house on 12th street on 640 E. 12th Street, between B and C, Apartment 14. The people there are trying to do something, for ALL of us, and not men and women that belong to a white middle class white club!
And that's what you all belong to! REVOLUTION NOWWWWW!! Gimme a G! [crowd: G!] Gimme an A! [crowd: A!] Gimme a Y! [crowd: Y!] Gimme a P! [crowd: P!] Gimme a O! [crowd: O!] Gimme a W! [crowd: W!] Gimme a E! [crowd: E!] Gimme a R! [crowd: R!] Gay... [voice cracks] [more quietly] Gay power. [crowd noise: applause] Sylvia: Louder GAY POWER!! [crowd noise: whistling]
