LGBTQ Homeless Youth Exhibit, ‘Queers in Exile,’ Opens in NYC | Jul. 17-28

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Queers in Exile, 2013 NYC

Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth opens at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City on July 17 and runs through July 28, 2013.

Presented as part of the All Out Arts Fresh Fruit Festival , the exhibition features the artworks of Gerard Gaskin, Samantha Box, Richard Renaldi , and Andy Warhol among others.

Queers in Exile

The exhibition explores the personal histories, creativity, and activism of LGBTQ street-involved youth from the Stonewall Riots of 1969 to present day.

Inspired by transgender activist Sylvia Rivera’s essay Queens in Exile, the Forgotten Ones , this exhibition makes visible the long-hidden crisis of queer youth homelessness, while highlighting the powerful ways these young people have helped each other survive and create change.

It focuses on ‘chosen family,’ redefining House and home, organizing and political actions, and resistance. It is a view of history told by those who live/lived it within a community often silenced and ignored, but the vision goes beyond visibility.

When

Exhibit: July 17, 2013 to July 28, 2013
Opening Reception: July 17, 2013; 6 – 8pm

Where

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, NY

[spotted via arcthemagazine.com ]

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