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
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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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