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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.
   

74
Cleve's Birthday Party

Harvey Milk serves a donut cake to Cleve Jones on his birthday at the Elephant Walk, 1978

16 x 20"

 

75
The Flag

San Francisco Pride Parade, 1994

16 x 20"

78
Electioneering

Harvey Milk at the San Francisco Gay Parade, 1976

16 x 20"

79
Empress Doris

San Francisco Gay Parade, 1976

16 x 20"

80
Harvey Milk and Cleve Jones

Harvey Milk and Cleve Jones meet the press after Anita Bryant's campaign to repeal anti-discrimination laws passed in Wichita, Kansas, 1978

16 x 20"

81
ACT-UP Die-In

An ACT-UP die-in marks the conclusion of the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton presidencies as the third consecutive president to fail to create an AIDS policy, 1992

16 x 20"

 

84
Jerome Caja

Celebrated queer artist Jerome Caja at the Dore Alley Street Fair, 1990

11 x 14"

 

85
Lovers at the Castro Street Fair, 1980

15 x 19"

86
Dykes on Bikes

San Francisco Pride Parade, 1997

15 x 19"

 

87
San Francisco Dyke March, 2000

15 x 19"

88
The Castro, 1984

15 x 19"

 

89
Lesbian Feminists

San Francisco Pride Parade, 1980

15 x 19"

 

90
New friends at the Castro New Year's Eve party, 1984

15 x 19"

91
Divine on the Loose

In character from her Trocadero Transfer performance Divine screams, "I can fuck and kill anyone I want, get out of my way," 1978

16 x 20"

 

92
Patina du Prey's The Memorial Dress

Hunter Reynolds as alter-ego Patina Du Prey dances in his sculpture/performance piece, a black silk gown inscribed with the names of 25,000 people who died from AIDS.
—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
—World AIDS Day, December 1, 1987

20 x 16"

 

93
Chaps Bar Lovers, 1979

15 x 19"

94
The National AIDS Memorial Grove

Golden Gate Park, 1988

15 x 19"

 

95
Trans Violence

A vigil at the Castro Theater for the premier of "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), a feature film about the life and murder of the transsexual man, Brandon Teena.

15 x 19"

 

96
Inauguaration

San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk greet the press on the steps of City Hall, following Milk's inauguration as supervisor and the first openly gay man in the country to win election for public office, 1977

16 x 20"

97
Roberta

Head of Dykes on Bikes at the Gay Parade, 1980

20 x 24"

98
San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, 1978

Capitalizing on publicity from her singing career, conservative Anita Bryant created the Save Our Children coalition on the basis that exposure to homosexuals caused deviance in children. With Bryant as its leader, Save Our Children launched a series of successful campaigns to repeal anti-discrimination laws throughout the United States in opposition to the growing gay rights movement.

27 x 30"

 

 

99
Her Royal Majesty, Empress of San Francisco, Jose I, The Widow Norton

In reference to San Francisco eccentric Joshua Norton, the self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States, Jose Sarria adopted the title of Norton's widow to become the founding member of the Imperial Court, currently the second largest non-profit gay organization in the U.S., 1983

14 x 11"

 

100
Basic Instinct

Activist group Queer Nation at the premiere of the film Basic Instinct, 1992

16 x 20

 

   
 

 

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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)

 

 

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