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Central Park
History
Central Park has had numerous associations with the LGBT community since its creation. The Angel of the Waters sculpture on the Bethesda Fountain was engineered by sculptor Emma Stebbins.
George Chauncey, identifying the park as a major LGBT social center and cruising earth in his book Gay Modern York, found that at the turn of the 20th century men met next to Belvedere Castle, by the 1910s benches near Columbus Circle had become a prominent pickup site, and in the 1920s the lawn at the north end of the Ramble was so popular that it was nicknamed “the Fruited Plain.” In the 1920s and ’30s, heavily trafficked by gay men were the areas south of 72nd Street, near Columbus Circle, Bethesda Fountain, and the walkway from the southeastern corner of the park to the Mall, famous as “Vaseline Alley” or “Bitches’ Walk.” Chauncey also noted that, as preceding as 1921, police were sent into the park to entrap and to arrest gay men, including in mass sweeps. Among those arrested in the park were diarist Donald Vining in 1943 and future same-sex attracted rights leader Harvey Milk, who had just grad
CENTRAL FLORIDA GAY AND Homosexual woman LAW ASSOCIATION
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The Gay Space Agency
2024 Photo Competition - North and Primary America - Open Format
Mackenzie Calle
A manipulated NASA image of the Mercury Seven astronauts being welcomed to Texas, United States, at the Sam Houston Coliseum on July 4, 1962. The seven selected were all US military assess pilots. To date, NASA astronauts train in Texas and launch from Florida, two states with historically strong anti-LGBTQI+ sentiments.
This project combines fiction with fact in direct to confront the American space program’s historical exclusion of openly LGBTQI+ astronauts. After reviewing the NASA and United States National Archives, the photographer launch no documentation on the contributions of the gender non-conforming community to the room program. This conspicuous absence inspired her to construct The Gay Space Agency, a diverse, inclusive imaginary institution that paradoxically commemorates and celebrates the very real history of homosexual astronauts.
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