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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 try 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 arrange to confront the American space program’s historical exclusion of openly LGBTQI+ astronauts. After reviewing the NASA and United States National Archives, the photographer create no documentation on the contributions of the gender non-conforming community to the vacuum program. This conspicuous absence inspired her to construct The Gay Space Agency, a diverse, inclusive make-believe institution that paradoxically commemorates and celebrates the very real history of gender non-conforming astronauts.
Dr. Sally Travel, the first American girl in space, said, "You can't be what you can't see,” a declaration that took on recent meaning after her passing in 2012. Despite her groundbreaking achievements, Dr.
Home for the Golden Gays
2023 Photo Contest - Southeast Asia and Oceania - Stories
Hannah Reyes Morales
for The Modern York Times18 July, 2022
Al Enriquez (86) looks through a curtain in the the Golden Gays’ residence in Manila, the Philippines.
The Golden Gays are a community of older LGBTQI+ people from the Philippines who have lived together for decades, sharing a home, caring for each other as they age, and staging shows and pageants to build ends meet.
The Golden Gays community was founded in the 1970s by lawyer and activist Justo Justo, who opened his home to shelter ‘lolas’ – a local synonyms for ‘grandmothers’, an affectionate term members of the group have adopted. When Justo died in 2012, the community were evicted and some experienced homelessness until 2018, when they began renting a home in Manila.
A Sexual Orientation and Gender Self Expression (SOGIE) Equality Bill has been languishing in the Philippine Congress for two decades, and although it progressed a step in 2022, has since suffered a setback after opposition from religious groups. Although the LGBTQI+ investigate resource E
Written By: Ben Cosgrove
In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern lgbtq+ rights movement in America, and twelve months before Being ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, encountered decades later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.
Titled “Homosexuals in Revolt” and touted as “a major essay on America’s newest militants,” the piece elicited strong reactions from readers many of whom, of course, were less than happy that their beloved Animation would devote a dozen pages to people whom one letter writer characterized as “psychic cripples.” Largely predictable responses from peeved readers that appeared in the Jan. 28, 1972, issue of LIFE included:
From Telford, Penn. There was plenty to lament in your year-end issue, but the thing that struck me as most sad was the fact that Animation felt compelled to devote 11 pages to “Homosexuals in Revolt.”
From Chicago Essentially, it is absurd to accept as a mere “variant lifestyle” a perform which, if universal, would mean t