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Savas Abadsidis June 1, 2021
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 #GAYNRD DAILY the news and art round-up for Tuesday June 1st, 2021 — the first day of Gay Pride Month. The Stonewall Riots, which is considered catalyst for pride and acceptance of the LGBT community began Jun 28, 1969. That is why in the early years Pride was celebrated the last Sunday in June. As acceptance grew, both domestically and globally, it’s expanded to the whole month of June. Happy Pride everyone! ❤️ ????️‍???? ????️‍⚧️????✨

ESSENCE gives us a proper primer on the origins of pride and the Black and LGBT folks of color who played a significant role, in particular one Marsha P. Johnson. Never Forget: Pride Began As Riots Against The Police. June is Pride Month — the internationally-recognized commemoration month for the LGBTQ+ community to celebrate ourselves. It’s an observance that pays tribute to predecessors, honors moments of triumph, and looks ahead to a bright, inclusive future. But never forget that the origins of Pride are not unlike where we were just one year ago: civil unrest and police protests.

In June 1969, the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-run gay bar in New York City’s Greenwich Village, PBS notes. Officers arrived after midnight, under the premise that the Stonewall had violated liquor laws. Although it was a gay spot, women and drag queens, like trans freedom fighter, Marsha P. Johnson, had gained entry as well. It’s widely accepted that Johnson was present, and active, on the night the riots began.

On the morning of June 28, officers forced patrons outside and tried to have them arrested, but chaos ensued as customers resisted. After someone threw a brick (or was it a brick at all?,) a multi-day riot broke out.

“We were just saying, ‘no more police brutality’ and ‘we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places,” Johnson said, as heard in an episode of the podcast “Making Gay History.” Over 50 years later, Pride happens in June to honor Johnson, the riots, and others who fought for equality.

One of the glaring criticisms of Black activism is that it often leaves out the LGBTQ+ community, and more specifically, trans men and women, in the fight for justice. This isn’t a new issue, either — Eldridge Cleaver, the one-time Minister of Information for the Black Panther Party was infamous for his homophobia, and may be behind the ill-informed belief that gay men are a hindrance to Black progress. But it’s time we move past any instances of intolerance, because we cannot make true progress without including members of the LGBTQ+ community.

VACCINATIONS WORK David Hogg tweeted on Tuesday: That big dip on the right is the past month.

THE CURRENT Gay pride flag looks like this.

In 2018, artist Daniel Quasar is credited with creating the progress pride flag. Northwestern says Quasar combined the traditional pride flag with the transgender pride flag and added black and brown stripes to represent marginalized LGBTQ+ communities of color, community members lost to HIV/AIDS, and those currently living with the disease.

The original pride flag was designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978 and incorporated eight different colors that had different meanings: hot pink—sex, red—life, orange—healing, yellow—sunlight, green—nature, turquoise—magic/art, indigo—serenity, and violet—spirit, according to the Gilbert Baker Foundation.

In the years that followed, that original flag was altered for a variety of reasons. At one point, the hot-pink stripe was dropped because of fabric unavailability. And then in 1979, the flag went down to six colors, with indigo and turquoise being changed to just blue.

That six-striped flag continues to be the most synonymous with pride month and the LGBTQ+ community.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tom Holland! Holland, who turned 25 today, danced into our hearts in Billy Elliott the  Musical  and stayed there after becoming Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spider-Man: No Way Home is one of the most anticipated sequels in history.

 

MOOSE need speed limits, clearly.

HARLEY AND IVY by Eileen Widjaja.

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STAR TREK pride.

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THE GIFT that keeps on giving. Matt LeBlanc as a Joey Tribbiani meme following the Friends Reunion on HBO Max.

BIG BIRD Holy cow! This is a bald eagle side by side with a grey wolf. Move over Godzilla Vs King Kong, we wanna see this real life monster movie!

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ARE YOU INTERESTED in getting some oranges later?

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GAY GRIO Leo Herrera has some more thoughts about Pride: Welcome to Pride 2021

“Pride exists with or without parades or permission. A sacred geometry. Pride = Loss + Survival. Our bloodstream, a self-regulating organism delivering nutrients: money, exposure, examples. It’s magic. Its trick to seem delicate and precarious, even after surviving 50 years and 2 plagues. Pride is both our sun and axis. Our 1970 Big Bang. Inertia forever expanding toward sexual liberation and gender obliteration. A jazz funeral rolling toward a screaming kind of love. Welcome to Pride.”

 

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SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA let a ho, be a ho.

ART HISTORY The Queer Review: “Geoffrey Hendricks and Brian, 1978 was painted in 1978 in Neel’s kitchen. Geoff and Brian were invited to sit via Neel’s daughter-in-law. There was only one request: to wear the same clothes as the previous night, when they met at Rutgers, where Neel gave a lecture.”

 

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From Hendricks obituary in the New York Times: Geoffrey Hendricks and Bici Forbes had been married for years and had two children when they faced up to a conundrum. “By the time of our 10th wedding anniversary,” Mr. Hendricks recalled years later, “which is June 24, 1971, it was like: ‘Well, what should we do? Because we’re both gay.’ ”

Mr. Hendricks was an artist who was part of the boundary-stretching Fluxus movement, so it was perfectly in character when he and his wife, the artist now known as Nye Ffarrabas, decided to turn their disunion into performance art. On their 10th anniversary, they staged what has become known as the Flux Divorce in their Manhattan home.

Mr. Hendricks literally looked to the heavens for inspiration for some of his art; he was known for paintings of the sky, which he would render on traditional canvases and assorted other surfaces. (A fellow artist, Dick Higgins, gave him the nickname Cloudsmith.) But, like other Fluxus artists, he went far beyond the boundaries of painting.

Hendricks was, in short, an experimentalist of the first order.

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ANDROIDS Samsung just put out a new Virtual assistant accompanied by this avatar that looks like all the Pixar mom porn run through an AI. Unbox: Sam is about to make you forget all about Bixby. A visual arts production house dubbed Lightfarm has made a brand-new virtual assistant for Samsung named Sam, replacing the company’s long-running and quirky sounding Bixby.

Lightfarm has published several photos and renders of Sam, and we’re definitely getting uncanny-valley Battle Angel Alita vibes from it. Aside from that though, the new render looks pretty good, then we’re not exactly sure if a company like Samsung would go for the, uh, unique art style that Lightfarm has shown.

@_.gyro._Some of my best work #rule34lol #samsung #samsungwaifu #starwars #fypシ♬ Gangsta’s Paradise (feat. L.V.) – Coolio

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CLASSICAL ART The original Captain Marvel, now known as Shazam, watercolor by Pula Pula.

BLACK ADAM also used the same incantation, SHAZAM!, to acquire his powers. But whereas Billy Batson called down the lightning and it was the gods of old who shared their abilities: Sampson, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Atlas, and Mercury, Batson’s predecessor: Teth Adam evoked the following Egyptian gods.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson will portray Teth Adam in Black Adam in 2022.

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ART APPRECIATION SOPHIE street art tribute in NYC, work in progress on Houston & 2nd Ave. EDM: “FRIENDS OF THE LATE SOPHIE LAUNCH ART AUCTION FOR TRANSGENDER RIGHTS. SOPHIE tragically died in an accident in Greece earlier this year. In the wake of her tragic death the late artist’s friends and collaborators have launched a fundraising effort for Transgender rights.

The campaign—an art auction called God Is Trans—will raise money for the Trans Justice Funding Project, a community-led fundraising initiative aimed at justice and equality for Trans people around the globe.

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WANDAVISION head writer Jac Schaeffer has signed a three-year overall deal TV deal with Marvel Studios and 20th Television. Variety: Under the deal, Schaeffer will develop projects for both Marvel Studios and 20th Television. Projects for Marvel Studios will go to Disney Plus, while projects for 20th TV will be developed for all platforms.

Schaeffer created WandaVision for television and also served as head writer and executive producer. She is also known for writing, directing, and producing the feature TiMER and also wrote the animated short Olaf’s Frozen Adventure and the feature The Hustle starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. She also worked on the story for the upcoming Marvel feature Black Widow, which will be released in theaters and on Disney Plus on July 7.

 

NEVER FORGET Marsha P. Johnson.

Pride exists because of a woman.
Pride exists because of a black woman.
Pride exists because of a black trans woman.
Pride exists because of a black trans woman who was a sex worker.
Pride exists because of a black, bisexual trans woman who was a sex worker that threw a brick at a cop.
Pride exists because of a black, bisexual trans woman, who was a sex worker, that threw a brick at a cop and started a riot against the state.
Don’t lose this month in rainbow capitalism and unabashed racism because of the privilege of being white while queer.
If you aren’t supporting queer people of color, trans women, and queer sex workers, you aren’t celebrating pride, you are celebrating rainbow capitalism and police brutality.
Her name was Marsha P. Johnson.
Original by: Karence Cole

Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!
To the one that started it all. Wouldn’t be Pride without a Riot! Much love to the Stonewall Riots! by artist Joe Phillips.

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