Free guest docent-led tour of our current show, The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment, with Pamela Sneed.
Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, writer and actress. She has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out, Bomb, VIBE, and on the cover of New York Magazine. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery published by Henry Holt in April 1998 and KONG and other works published by Vintage Entity Press, 2009 and a new chapbook ...
Free guest docent-led tour of our current show, The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment, with Pamela Sneed.
Pamela Sneed is a New York based poet, writer and actress. She has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Time Out, Bomb, VIBE, and on the cover of New York Magazine. She is author of Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom Than Slavery published by Henry Holt in April 1998 and KONG and other works published by Vintage Entity Press, 2009 and a new chapbook Lincoln. Her work is included in The 100 Best African American Poems edited by Nikki Giovanni. Recent publications include work in Best Monologues from Best American Short Plays, Future Perfect, and LIU Teaching Narratives with upcoming work in Ping Pong and Cutbank magazines.
The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment explores the vibrant and liberating decade between the Stonewall Riots from 1969 until 1980. This historic exhibition features over 130 works from the Museum’s extensive collection of over 24,000 objects including artwork made during this significant period in LGBTQ history. Works have also been borrowed from the Lesbian Herstory Archives and the Fales Library, and the entire "X Portfolio" by Robert Mapplethorpe (1978), recently purchased and accessioned into the Museum’s permanent collection, is on display. It was this iconic body of work, made during the 1970s, that led to the Culture Wars of the following decade. “The 1970s" explores themes of political activism, body/self, fashion/style, and sexual freedom/expression.
Image: Peter Hujar, "Gay Liberation Front Poster Image," 1970, Vintage gelatin silver print, 18 x 12 in. Gift of the Peter Hujar Archive, LLC. Collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum.¬¬
