Carrying her camera to every march, rally and celebration, photographer Lenn Keller affirmed black lesbians' place in the moment and the movement, creating a record for future LGBTQ+ generations. (via KQED)
knew she was experiencing an extraordinary moment in history. With her housemates, holding protest signs made in their Berkeley apartment, Keller joined a lesbian contingent that refused to go unacknowledged in San Francisco’s 1976 Gay Freedom Day . At a time when “gay community” was synonymous with white men, the message was clear: “We lesbians are here, too.”
“Early on when I began to survey the available histories, I felt like one of the things I was searching for and not finding a lot of was material related to women and people of color,” sayscurator Christina Linden. “I knew immediately that I really wanted to include [Keller’s photography] in the exhibition.”For far too long, Keller, now 67, has watched the stories and accomplishments of her community fade from both memory and view.
She met photographers, filmmakers and musicians. “That was a real eye-opener for me,” she says. “It was like, ‘Wow, they’re actually doing this stuff.’”She soon realized, however, that men were the only ones making art. “In fact, we heard many disparaging things about Angela Davis,” Keller recalls. She remembers one self-proclaimed radical saying, “‘That sister needs to learn how to support the brothers in the right way.
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