Klaus Kertess, Giard Foundation Advisory Board Member, dies at 76 October 17, 2016 See the New York Times obituary for Klaus Kertess. Klaus Kertess, photographed by Robert Giard, (c) Jonathan Silin.
Leonard Suryajaya is 2016-2017 Robert Giard Fellow June 17, 2016 At its annual benefit on June 7, 2016, the Robert Giard Foundation, in partnership with CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies at the City University of New York, announced its new Fellow, Leonard Suryajaya, for his multimedia project Other Mother. Suryajaya’s work explores intricate and complicated layers of selfhood ...
6th Annual Robert Giard Foundation Benefit May 8, 2016 Please join us at the Sixth Annual Benefit in support of the Giard Fellowship for emerging photographers and filmmakers working on themes of gender, sexuality, and the LGBTQ experience. Our guests of honor will be Blanche Wiesen Cook & Clare Coss. Blanche Cook and Clare Coss, life-long ...
Ka-Man Tse: Narrow Distances March 22, 2016 March 22, 2016, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room C205 CLAGS 2014-2015 Robert Giard Fellow, Ka-man Tse will present her recent work, Narrow Distances,a series of photographs made within the LGBTQ community in Hong Kong between 2014-2015. She will also screen her video Gahp Song, an ...
Muriel Dimen 1942-2016 February 16, 2016 The Robert Giard Foundation mourns the passing of our esteemed colleague, Muriel Dimen, who was a founding board member and Secretary of the Board. Muriel Dimen, a feminist scholar and psychoanalyst, and editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, contributed the full measure of her energies to the ...
Giard honoree Blanche Wiesen Cook’s third volume of her biography of Eleanor Roosevelt February 01, 2016 Just published: Giard honoree Blanche Wiesen Cook's Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3. The War Years and After, 1939-1962 “Heartachingly relevant…the Eleanor Roosevelt who inhabits these meticulously crafted pages transcends both first-lady history and the marriage around which Roosevelt scholarship has traditionally pivoted.”— The Wall Street ...
Timoth Liu: February Portrait of the Month February 01, 2016 Timothy Liu, New York, NY, 1993 As an Asian American, gay man, and former Mormon, Timothy Liu’s poetry reveals the complex terms of his identity in an emotionally charged and often sexually explicit way. Of the imagery in his work, Liu has said, “Language is erotic, intended or not. ...
2015 Donors January 18, 2016 The Robert Giard Foundation thanks the following for their financial contributions in 2015. We very much appreciate their continued support in making our work possible. Joseph Alexiou Jorn Ake Jeffrey Arnstein Jeffrey Banks Ted Berger Thomas Burns Velleda C. Ceccoli Jay Chen Vincent Cianni Bradley Cohen Harriet Cohen Gabriel de Guzman Diane Diamond ...
Samuel Steward: January Portrait of the Month January 01, 2016 Samuel M. Steward, Berkeley, CA, 1988/89 On the occasion of the recent publication of Philip Sparrow Tells All: Lost Essays by Samuel Steward, Writer, Professor, Tattoo Artist, we are pleased to feature Samuel Steward (1909–1993) as the January portrait of the month. Philip Sparrow Tells All (2015) is a ...
Making History Visible December 01, 2015 The Giard Foundation celebrates this year's progress in achieving equal rights for LGBTQ people. The Foundation helps to make visible the work of al those who came before and paved the way for today's achievements. Through our website, traveling shows, and access to Robert Giard's portraits of LGBTQ writers and activists for scholars, ...