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George Platt Lynes : A Life In Portraits

George Platt Lynes : A Life In Portraits October 15, 2015 Date: Wednesday, November 18 Time: 6 - 7pm, Reception to follow Place: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art 26 Wooster Street, NY, NY 10013 http://www.leslielohman.org Allen Ellenzweig will give a Powerpoint presentation about the life of the extraordinary twentieth-century American photographer, George Platt Lynes. Using ...

2020-05-31T14:11:56+00:00October 15th, 2015|

Franklin Kameny: October Portrait of the Month

Franklin Kameny: October Portrait of the Month October 01, 2015 Franklin Kameny, Washington, DC, 1991 Pioneer gay rights activist Franklin Kameny was born in New York City in 1925. After being fired from his post as an astronomer with the Army Map Service in 1957, he filed the first civil rights claim based on sexual orientation and took the ...

2020-05-31T14:07:32+00:00October 1st, 2015|

Lillian Faderman: September Portrait of the Month

Lillian Faderman: September Portrait of the Month September 01, 2015 Lillian Faderman, 1994 Scholar Lillian Faderman was born in 1940 in the Bronx, NY, and was raised by her mother, a single parent, garment factory worker, and Jewish immigrant from Latvia. While Faderman was in elementary school, her family moved to East Los Angeles. She earned a B.A. from ...

2020-05-31T14:05:40+00:00September 1st, 2015|

Giard Fellows on the Move!

Giard Fellows on the Move! September 01, 2015 Dear Friends of the Robert Giard Foundation, We hope that you are having a wonderful summer. The following is a brief update on the work of some of our fellows: Our current fellow, Juan Carlos Zaldivar, continues to make progress on his latest film Alterations and he ...

2020-05-31T14:01:33+00:00September 1st, 2015|

In Memory of Deborah Ann Light

In Memory of Deborah Ann Light (1935 - 2015) July 27, 2015 Philanthropist Deborah Ann Light, a key figure in establishing Eastern Long Island’s Peconic Land Trust and pioneering Wiccan priestess, died on July 21, 2015. Among her many charitable and educational projects was the Thanks Be To Grandmother Winifred Foundation. The Foundation, which she created in 1992, gave ...

2020-05-31T13:52:02+00:00July 27th, 2015|

Larry Kramer: July – August Portrait of the Month

Larry Kramer: July - August Portrait of the Month July 25, 2015 Larry Kramer with Molly, 1989 Playwright, author, and political activist Larry Kramer was born in Bridgeport, CT, in 1935. He graduated from Yale University in 1957 with a degree in English. Kramer began his career editing scripts at Columbia Pictures and then United Artists, where he wrote ...

2020-05-31T13:47:28+00:00July 25th, 2015|

Urvashi Vaid: June Portrait of the Month

Urvashi Vaid: June Portrait of the Month June 11, 2015 Urvashi Vaid, Washington, DC, 1991 Activist Urvashi Vaid was born in New Delhi, India in 1958 and immigrated to the United States with her family at age eight. Vaid became politically motivated at a young age and became active in feminist and human rights groups at Vassar College in ...

2020-05-31T13:45:28+00:00June 11th, 2015|

Gloria Anzaldúa: March Portrait of the Month

Gloria Anzaldúa: March Portrait of the Month March 1, 2015 Gloria Anzaldúa, 1988 Scholar of Chicana (Mexican-American) cultural, feminist, and queer theory, Gloria E. Anzaldúa was born in 1942 in the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas to a family of Mexican-American ranchers. Despite discrimination and hardship during her childhood, she managed to obtain a college education, and in ...

2020-05-31T04:20:23+00:00March 1st, 2015|

Sapphire: February Portrait of the Month

Sapphire: February Portrait of the Month January 7, 2015 Sapphire, 1988 Author and poet Sapphire was born Ramona Lofton in 1950 in Fort Ord, California. Her father was an army sergeant, and her mother was a member of the Women’s Army Corps. Lofton’s family, including three siblings, relocated several times during her childhood to various cities, states, and countries. ...

2020-05-31T04:14:31+00:00January 7th, 2015|
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