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.


74 Cleve's Birthday Party Harvey Milk serves a donut cake to Cleve Jones on his birthday at the Elephant Walk, 1978 16 x 20" $300	75 The Flag San Francisco Pride Parade, 1994 16 x 20" $300	78 Electioneering Harvey Milk at the San Francisco Gay Parade, 1976 16 x 20" $325

79 Empress Doris San Francisco Gay Parade, 1976 16 x 20" $300	80 Harvey Milk and Cleve Jones Harvey Milk and Cleve Jones meet the press after Anita Bryant's campaign to repeal anti-discrimination laws passed in Wichita, Kansas, 1978 16 x 20" $325	81 ACT-UP Die-In An ACT-UP die-in marks the conclusion of the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton presidencies as the third consecutive president to fail to create an AIDS policy, 1992 16 x 20" $300

84 Jerome Caja Celebrated queer artist Jerome Caja at the Dore Alley Street Fair, 1990 11 x 14" $200	85 Lovers at the Castro Street Fair, 1980 15 x 19" $300	86 Dykes on Bikes San Francisco Pride Parade, 1997 15 x 19" $300

87 San Francisco Dyke March, 2000 15 x 19" $300	88 The Castro, 1984 15 x 19" $300	89 Lesbian Feminists San Francisco Pride Parade, 1980 15 x 19" $300

90 New friends at the Castro New Year's Eve party, 1984 15 x 19" $300	91 Divine on the Loose In character from her Trocadero Transfer performance Divine screams, "I can fuck and kill anyone I want, get out of my way," 1978 16 x 20" $350	92 Patina du Prey's The Memorial Dress Hunter Reynolds as alter-ego Patina Du Prey dances in his sculpture/performance piece, a black silk gown inscribed with the names of 25,000 people who died from AIDS. —Yerba Buena Center for the Arts —World AIDS Day, December 1, 1987 20 x 16" $300

93 Chaps Bar Lovers, 1979 15 x 19" $300	94 The National AIDS Memorial Grove Golden Gate Park, 1988 15 x 19" $300	95 Trans Violence A vigil at the Castro Theater for the premier of "Boys Don't Cry" (1999), a feature film about the life and murder of the transsexual man, Brandon Teena. 15 x 19" $300

96 Inauguaration San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk greet the press on the steps of City Hall, following Milk's inauguration as supervisor and the first openly gay man in the country to win election for public office, 1977 16 x 20" $350	97 Roberta Head of Dykes on Bikes at the Gay Parade, 1980 20 x 24" $400	98 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade, 1978 Capitalizing on publicity from her singing career, conservative Anita Bryant created the Save Our Children coalition on the basis that exposure to homosexuals caused deviance in children. With Bryant as its leader, Save Our Children launched a series of successful campaigns to repeal anti-discrimination laws throughout the United States in opposition to the growing gay rights movement. 27 x 30" $450

99 Her Royal Majesty, Empress of San Francisco, Jose I, The Widow Norton In reference to San Francisco eccentric Joshua Norton, the self-proclaimed Emperor of the United States, Jose Sarria adopted the title of Norton's widow to become the founding member of the Imperial Court, currently the second largest non-profit gay organization in the U.S., 1983 14 x 11" $200		100 Basic Instinct Activist group Queer Nation at the premiere of the film Basic Instinct, 1992 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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