{"id":33510,"date":"2016-07-11T15:26:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=33510"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T13:26:49","slug":"lgbtq-legend-in-my-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/lgbtq-legend-in-my-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project Honouring Black LGBTQ Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33744 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Untitled-2.jpg\" alt=\"Legend in my Living Room\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Jasper Briggs, Legend in My Living Room, George, 2016, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the Artist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;As a black gay man I&#8217;ve learned you have to fight the fear. The fear of life. The fear of existing in the world. My creative energy and art has made me fearless.&#8221; &#8211; Beau Mccall<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSix portraits of LGBTQ adults between the ages of 56 and 84 hang on the walls of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leslielohman.org\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art<\/a> as an homage to those who fought for queer\u00a0rights. Commissioned by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sageusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders<\/a> (SAGE) and shot by Jasper Briggs, &#8220;Legend in my Living Room&#8221; features these legendary social\u00a0heroes, from activists to military personnel, in the comforts of their own living rooms.<br \/>\nBriggs&#8217; role as a photojournalist, rather than just a photographer, allows the subjects to be in their most candid\u00a0form, portraying the pain and perseverance they\u00a0went through over the past decades in order to push progression and freedom forward.\u00a0&#8220;Too often the experiences of black LGBTQ individuals are erased out of history&#8221; says\u00a0Steven Fullwood, one of the co-curators. &#8220;So with\u00a0this\u00a0photography project\u00a0we aim to\u00a0empower them as they take control of their narrative and public representation.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33745 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/1500.jpg\" alt=\"Legend in my Living Room\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Jasper Briggs, Legend in My Living Room, Alex, 2016, Archival pigment print, Courtesy of the Artist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was young we didn&#8217;t think about getting old. 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