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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

 

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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.
   
   

49
Excorcism of the Democratic Party

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with Mark Miller as a Bishop perform one of their infamous excorcisms at downtown Union Square, 1984

11 x 14"
$200

 

50
White Night Riots

On May 21, 1979, Dan White was sentenced with voluntary manslaughter and seven years prison time for the murders of Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The resulting riots were the most violent in the history of San Francisco

11 x 14"
$200

 

52
Harvey Milk and Carol Channing

Harvey Milk and Carol Channing at the Carol Channing Lookalike Contest during the Imperial Court Coronation, 1978

11 x 14"
$200

 

53
Lesbians

San Francisco Gay Parade, 1978

11 x 14"
$200

 

54
Protest at St. Mary's Church

Activists protest St. Mary's Cathedral for cancelling the Gay Men's Chorus performance due to the use of "gay" in the choir's name, 1981

16 x 20"
$300

55
Birth of the Quilt

This patchwork arrangement of names of the deceased who died from AIDS taped on the wall of the San Francisco Federal Building in 1985 inspired Cleve Jones to create the first panel of what became a year later (1986) The AIDS Memorial Quilt, and in 1987 he and several friends founded The NAMES Project Foundation.

20 x 16"
$325

 

56
Photographer Jeffrey Kriger (left) with his models

Castro Street Fair, 1978

16 x 20"
$300

 

57
The Intersection of 18th Street and Castro

The Castro Street Fair, 1979

16 x 20"
$300

59
Celebrating Dan White's Suicide

Radical gay activists Jack Fertig, Ben Gardiner and Arthur Evans (left to right) celebrate Dan White's suicide at the Harvey Milk Plaza, 1985

11 x 14"
$200

 

60
USAF Sergeant Leonard Matlovich

U.S. Air Force Sergeant Leonard Matlovich challenged the military's exclusion of homosexuals when he came out in 1975. Though discharged six months later, his story made national headlines and brought much needed visibility and hope to the growing gay movement. He moved to San Francisco and became a spokesman for gay rights and HIV/AIDS reserach until the last year of his life in 1987, when he announced on Good Morning America that he had contracted HIV.

14 x 11"
$200

 

61
Easter Party

A costume contest at the annyual Lily Street neighborhood Easter Party, 1987

11 x 14"
$200

62
Sylvester

Disco-soul singer Sylvester, member of the short-lived Cockettes, performes at an early AIDS benefit concert at Davies Symphony Hall, 1983

11 x 14"
$225

 

63
Divine with Edward Martinez

Artist Edward Martinez (center) wins the In Search of Divine's Groom Contest at the I-Beam, 1982

11 x 14
$200

65
Taking Back the Castro

Keith Hennessey (far left) brings friends, neighbors and a carpet to the central intersection of 18th and Castro Streets during the Castro Halloween party, a brief effort to reclaim their neighborhood from its infamous annual Halloween party invasion, 1988

16 x 20
$300

 

66
Sidewalk Diversity

Castro Street Fair, 1990

16 x 20
$300

   

 

 

 

67
Fred Phelps Protesting

Anti-gay evangelist Fred Phelps at the memorial for hate crime victim Matthew Shepherd.
San Francisco City Hall, 1998

16 x 20
$300

 

68
The Reunion Circuit Party

The 2001 Reunion Circuit Party AIDS fundraiser at San Francisco Ciy Hall with attendance of over 30,000.

20 x 16"
$300

69
Robert Mapplethorpe

Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and his work at the Lawsen DeCelle Gallery, 1978

20 x 16"
$300

 

71
Above the Castro Street Fair, 1983

16 x 20"
$300

 

72
It was murder

"Today, Dan White was essentially patted on the back. He was convicted of manslaughter— what you get for hit and run. We all know this violdnece has touched all of us. It was not manslaughter. I was there that day at City Hall. I saw what the violence did. It was not manslaughter, it was murder."
—Cleve Jones

16 x 20
$300

 

 

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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.

 

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