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Bruce Springsteen, Boston, 1977.

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Pete Seeger and Joan Baez photographed for Rolling Stone magazine, circa 2009.

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Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. 1964

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Young Kate Bush playing with shadow.

Photo by John Carder Bush

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Joan Baez photographed by Nik Wheeler, 1970.

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Penelope Cruz, 2004

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The Greek Garden ギリシャ庭園 by Peter Skov

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My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante / The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer Lynch

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One of David Wojnarowicz’s best-known pieces, Untitled (One Day This Kid...) (1990) is a photo-text collage with a portrait of the artist as an innocent child. Surrounding this anodyne, yearbook-style image is a field of text that gathers like a storm cloud, narrating a traumatic future in which this child will be persecuted—by the government, by the church, by society at large—for his sexuality. The repetition of the phrase “one day” gives the work a prophetic and propulsive cadence; it simmers with the visceral anger that defined so much of Wojnarowicz’s work as an artist and impassioned activist.

In 1991, the Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, in Canton, New York, staged the exhibition From Desire... A Queer Diary, curated by Nan Goldin. The show, which was part of a festival of gay and lesbian art, included works by David Armstrong, Greer Lankton, Zoe Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mark Morrisroe, and Wojnarowicz, among numerous others. Arriving amid the ’8os-era culture wars,

From Desire sparked controversy on campus. School fraternities reportedly attempted to prevent students from seeing the show, bullying those who attended and fulfilling the prediction of toxic intolerance that Wojnarowicz conjures in One Day This Kid.

Despite being autobiographical, Wojnarowicz’s collage is inclusive, inviting identification by others marked by homophobia or trauma, or those who feel invisible in a moment of stifling social conservatism. For the From Desire invitation, Wojnarowicz adapted One Day This Kid, changing the pronouns from he to she, and swapping in a young Nan Goldin in place of himself. “This card was an invitation to a queer art show that David helped me curate in 1991, another of our censored shows! It has pride of place in my home,” Goldin says. “I’m honored that David asked me to represent the girl. We were ugly, bucktoothed kids. But look what a beauty he grew into.”

from Object Lessons by The Editors, Aperture Magazine, Summer 2020

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“Bee Nott Afrayed  Of Anny Man Thatt Walks Beneath The Skys Tho Big He Bee Or Small You Bee For I Will Equalize”

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Domestic by Catherine Opie - lesbian couples in their home environment across the United States

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driving to hood river, oregon

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The tusk of a woolly mammoth being unearthed from a Siberian riverbed. 

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The vibe I bring in to the function

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