San Francisco: the Making of a Queer Mecca. Rink Foto and Harvey Milk at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation

SAN FRANCISCO: THE MAKING OF A QUEER MECCA Early Photos by Rink Foto Click here for photos by Harvey Milk Curated by Julia Haas and assisted by Jonathan D. Katz Sept. 15–Oct. 24, 2009 These photographs are no longer available through Leslie/Lohman. Collectors can contact Rink through his own website.
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All prints were printed in 2009, are archival injet prints and are in an edition of 5. © Rink Foto. All rights reserved.


1 The Quilt Vollunteers install a twelve-foot square section of The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quild on the floor of the Moscone Center (1987). Currently the quilt is made of over 44,000 squares, representing over 91,000 names of people who have died from HIV/AIDS. 11 x 14"	2 Clone Stare Golden Gate Park, 1978 11 x 14"	3 Cruisers Folsom Street Fair, 1998 11 x 14"

4 Lovers on a swing The Castro, 1993 14 x 11"	5 Lovers in a 1951 Mercury, 1979 11 x 14"	6 Anti-Papal Sister Blanche de Roote protests Senator Diane Feinstein's fundraiser party for the Pope John Paul II's visit to the United States in 1987. The Sisters proudly earned a spot on the Papal List of Heretics as a result of their dedicated opposition to the Pope and the Catholic Church's condemnation of homosexuality. 14 x 11

7 Humboldt County Lesbians San Francisco Gay Parade, 1980 11 x 14"	8 Gay Hippies San Francisco Gay Parade, 1974 14 x 11"	9 Die-In Aftermath All Day & Night AIDS Protest, 1989 11 x 14"

11 Men on Mens The San Francisco gay performance ensemble Pormo Afro Homo performing a skit from their production Fierce Love, a parody of the Men on Films sketch from the television show In Living Color. Left to right: Brian Freeman, Djola Branner, and Eric Gupton on stage at Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint, 1991 11 x 14"	12 Sperm Bank Activists Leiland Traiman (left) and friend at the pride parade, 1994 11 x 14"	16 AIDS Memorial march and rally, 1986 14 x 11

17 Mask An officer ready with chain cutters at the Old Federal Building where AIDS activists John Lorenzini chained himself to the building, protesting the Reagan Administration's lack of action in a growing AIDS crisis, 1992 14 x 11"	18 Lovers at the Castro Street Fair, 1983 14 x 11"	19 AIDS Hotline In 1983, Dan Turner, Paul Castro, John Lorenzini and Bobbi Campbell (Sister Florence Nightmare) began the first telephone service where callers could speak to aother person with AIDS. 11 x 14"

20 Looking for Dan White A drag queen on the hunt for Harvey Milk's murderer at the Castor Halloween Party, 1979 14 x 11"	21 Boom Boom for Soup Sister Boom Boom revs up to run for San Francisco supervisor, "just when you thought it was safe to go into a voting booth." She campaigned aggressively under the occupation "Nun of the Above" in 1982. 14 x 11"	22 Film for Sale Harvey Milk and the portable version of his Castro Camera store. 14 x 11"

	24 Gay American Indians San Francisco Gay Parade, 1979 11 x 14"
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All photographs in this show are being sold unframed and in editions of 5. Additional prints are available for sale upon request. All prints were printed in 2009 © Rink Foto, 2009. All rights reserved. Reproductions of these photographs are strictly prohibited without the express permission of the artist.
(Rev. 04/04/2010)