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What did kittles do for pride month2/6/2024 It’s not often in popular culture that butch women are associated with fashion-the stereotype usually includes some combination of flannel shirts, cargo pants, Doc Martens, and a “fuck your fashion” attitude. We are all blessed to be able to see the drag community of the 1980s: full of street theater, smiling faces, and some truly spectacular ’80s fashion. The book that Kittle was collecting photographs for was not published due to the AIDS epidemic, but in 2015 it was given new life via Kickstarter. In 1983, Kit Kittle started photographing the drag queens in the West Village. It is a collection of images spanning thousands of years, and creates a powerful argument for learning about the queer past so that we can appropriately honor the future. The Los Angeles Review of Books called this “probably the best coffee-table book ever created.” The curators of the Instagram account created this photo book in 2019. We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation by Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown To honor Pride Day, I have collected 11 queer photography books that celebrate the lives and loves of LGBTQ+ people. Fifty-one years later, June is Pride a unique tribute the queer community both present and past. In late June of 1969, members of the queer community fought back against police raids of gay and lesbian bars in New York City’s Greenwich Village.
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