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.


25 Divinity A raging Divine mere seconds before pulling the palm tree down into the audience for a raucous No On Prop 6 fundraiser at the Trocadero Transfer, 1978 14 x 11"	26 Panhandler with AIDS, 1980 14 x 11"	27 Tales of the City Sister Pristine Condition, author Armistead Maupin and openly gay professional football player Dave Kopay (left to right) at Papergack Traffic, celebrating the release of Armistead's "Tales of the City" in 1978. 16 x 20

28 Friends at San Francisco Gay Parade, 1973 20 x 16"	29 Motorcycle Club on Lily Stret, 1984 16 x 20"	30 Christopher Street In 1972 the San Francisco Gay Parade was named after Christopher Street, location of the Stonewall Inn and riots, in NYC. 16 x 20"

31 Public Transit Chain-in Members of the anarchist group, AIDS Coalition to Unlease Power (ACT-UP), chain themselves from the railing of a subway platform to the train car during the All Day& Night AIDS Protest, 1989. 16 x 20"	32 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence "The Sisters devote ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment. The Sisters believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit. — Mission Statement of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, 1982 16 x 20"	33 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Protest The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence protest the University of San Francisco's denial of their gay student population at the college's 125th Anniversary, 1980 16 x 20"

34 Couple and Child San Francisco Gay Parade, 1978 20 x 16"	35 Dragged Away An ACT-UP demonstrator is arrested for blocking the street during the All Day & Night AIDS Protest, 1989 16 x 20"	36 Die-In Artist Rudy Lemcke draws a die-in on the floor of the De Young Museum for A Day Without Art / World AIDS Day December 1, 1992 20 x 16"

37 Phone Sex Finale John and Harold meet in person for the first time after talking on a phone sex hotline for a year, 1978 16 x 20	38 The Imperial Court	39 Lesbian schoolbus workers against the Briggs initiative

40 Sally Gearhart Feminist, activist and professor Sally Gearhart at the No On Prop 6 Headquarters, where she campaigned alongside Harvey Milk to overturn the initiative that would ban homosexuals from teaching, 1977 16 x 20"	41 Anti-Racism Protest Randy Kikukawa and friends protest the Castor Station Bar for denying him entrance because he was "small," 1980 20 x 16"	42 Thirty Million A march and protest against Sandra Day O'Connor's vote to uphold laws banning consensual sex between same-sex adults, 1986 16 x 20"

43 Party Spirit A Cockette suffers from too much party spirit Castro Street Fair, 1974 16 x 20	44 ACT-UP Protest ACT-UP responds to the California governor's veto of gay rights laws, 1992 16 x 20	45 Harvey Milk and Lover Scott Smith, 1977 16 x 20"

47 Sandy and Carolyn Palace of Fine Arts, 1978 24 x 20"		48 Crawford Barton Gay photographer Crawford Barton proposed as a cover for After Dark magazines's idea of a typical San Francisco man, 1972 14 x 11"
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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)