Earlier this year, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery installed the portrait of Sylvia Rivera in the “Struggle for Justice” exhibition. Rivera is the first transgendered person in the museum’s collection. A forerunner in the fight against gender identity discrimination, Ray Rivera rechristened himself as Sylvia as a teenager. When cast out by her family, she…
San Diego commercial photographer, Grey Lockwood, will be opening his home studio in the heart of Hillcrest to anyone who would like a professional individual or couple portrait shot during Pride weekend – free of charge*. “I’ve been a Hillcrest resident for three years and originally thought of the idea as a way to give…
For the past few years the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) has packed its summer months with a great program called the Summer Salon Series; perhaps you have attended. The approximately 11-week series happened every Friday night and the roster of events scheduled to happen throughout the museum’s galleries all had themes that loosely…
NEW YORK — The legendary Liza Minnelli was the latest celebrity to support the acclaimed NOH8 Campaign. Liza’s NOH8 portrait was unveiled last Friday by the organization whose mission is to promote equality through visual protest. The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest created in direct response to the passage of California’s Proposition 8…
