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Queer people in Japan

Japan’s queer community has been strengthening its presence in recent decades, with many individuals increasingly taking on roles as LGBTQ activists or carving out safe spaces from HIV/AIDS awareness centers to cabaret bars.

In Edges of the Rainbow, published by The New Press, we receive intimate portraits of this community that center and celebrate those typically seen as on the fringes of Japanese society. The book focuses on the everyday lives of about a dozen individuals and couples, with over 150, snapshot-like photographs by Michel Delsol accompanied by short interviews by journalist Haruku Shinozaki that amplify each story.

Far from romanticizing this community, his photographs simply offer insight into the lives of LGBTQ individuals, allowing them to present their stories on their own terms to an international audience.

The Rainbow of Japan’s LGBTQ Identity, Captured in Photos (Claire Voon)

Gertrude and Alice

Alice Austen (March 17, 1866–June 9, 1952): She became the first American woman known to work outside the studio, creating what we now know as street photography.

«In the final months of the nineteenth century, Alice Austen took a summer vacation in the Catskill Mountains, where she met Gertrude Tate, six years her junior — a vivacious dance instructor and kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn, who wore a wig over her buzz-cut hair and with whom Alice would spend the remaining fifty-three years of her life.»

You can read it: The Other Great Gertrude-and-Alice Love Story: The Life and Legacy of Pioneering Photographer and Bicyclist Alice Austen (Maria Popova)

Loewe inaugura una exposición sobre Divine con motivo de PHotoEspaña 2021

La muestra, que consta de más de 40 imágenes (incluidas algunas de su infancia extraídas de sus álbumes personales) comienza hoy en Casa Loewe Madrid.

Divine es uno de los mayores iconos queer de toda la historia. El personaje creado por Harris Glenn Milstead (1945-1988) en los años 60 como catarsis de sus traumas de infancia ha trascendido más de lo que él mismo pudo imaginar jamás. En vida, Divine fue una revolución underground que desafió las normas de género imperantes e incluso las convenciones drag, pues huyó de la feminidad elegante para reivindicar la escoria y moverse cómodamente fuera de los márgenes de lo considerado como buen gusto.

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