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These raids, characterised by both physical and sexual assault at the hands of officers often lead to the arrests of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals under<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/stonewall-riots-lgbtq-drag-three-article-rule\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">anti-drag laws<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As was commonplace, Stonewall was stormed by police on 28 June 1969; however, the raid didn\u2019t exactly go to plan. Key figures \u2014 predominantly trans women, gender-non-conforming people and sex workers of colour \u2014 like<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/eu.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/2019\/03\/27\/black-history-marsha-johnson-and-stonewall-riots\/2353538002\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Martha P Johnson<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/drag-king-cabaret-legend-activist-storme-delarverie\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Storm\u00e9 DeLarverie<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/sylvia-rivera\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sylvia Rivera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/transvisionaries-miss-major\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miss Major Griffin-Gracy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> led a resistance against the police which escalated into riots, galvanising activists to lay the foundations of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whilst we cannot understate the bravery of the individuals who took part in the rebellion, it\u2019s also important to note that Stonewall was certainly<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/before-stonewall-riots-1445365\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> not the first incident<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in US history where LGBTQ+ people pushed back against the police \u2014 so what made it such a tipping point for the queer liberation movement?\u00a0 For artist and art historian Jonathan Weinberg \u2014\u00a0curator of the ongoing two-part exhibition <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greyartgallery.nyu.edu\/exhibition\/art-stonewall-1969-1989april-23%E2%80%92july-20-2019\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art after Stonewall 1969-1989<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it\u2019s because the events prompted an interconnected change in queer activists\u2019 methods and the community\u2019s modes of self-expression. \u201cThe decision to make a march a year later [the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2010\/06\/22\/1970-a-first-person-account-of-the-first-gay-pride-march\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first Pride parade<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on 28 June 1970] and celebrate that as an anniversary was absolutely crucial. The way that [Stonewall] was conceptualised as a turning point in images, in writing and in marching turned it into this important event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weinberg has been able to explore this representational shift through the process of curating <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stonewall 1969-1989<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a project undertaken by the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Currently showing in New York, the exhibition can be found between the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greyartgallery.nyu.edu\/exhibition\/art-stonewall-1969-1989april-23%E2%80%92july-20-2019\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Grey Art Gallery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leslielohman.org\/project\/art-after-stonewall\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Leslie-Lohman Museum<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Lower Manhattan and features iconic LGBTQ+ artists like Andy Warhol, Vaginal Davis, Keith Haring, Laura Aguilar and Barbara Hammer, alongside the work of activists groups like Gran Fury and the Gay Liberation Front. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, SLEEK asks Weinberg to select five works that explain key elements of the uprising and its subsequent impact on the LGBTQ+ community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>1. Elevating LGBTQ+ experiences<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78054,"id":78054,"title":"thomas","filename":"thomas.jpg","filesize":712271,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/art-after-stonewall\/thomas\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"thomas","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":78051,"date":"2019-06-28 09:44:14","modified":"2019-06-28 09:44:14","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1885,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","thumbnail-width":98,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","medium-width":1920,"medium-height":1885,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","medium_large-width":1920,"medium_large-height":1885,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1885,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1508,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1885,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":12,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thomas.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1920,"wpvr_mobile-height":1885}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Allegory of the Stonewall Riot (Statue of Liberty) Fighting for Drag Queen, Husband and Home, 1969. Courtesy the artist and Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dismissed as perverted, or just plain wrong, LGBTQ+ individuals were absent from North American media and censored from Hollywood cinema under the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=93301189\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hays Code<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (enforced from 1930-1968) \u2014 discussed only in documentaries that painted queer people as<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/current-issue\/2017\/1\/02\/50-years-after-homosexuals\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ill or immoral<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The act of representing queer history or culture was in itself radical and in the aftermath of Stonewall more artists began dealing with LGBTQ+ themes and honing an overtly queer aesthetic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is one of the few visual artists who was present during the raid and his sculpture <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allegory of the Stonewall Riot (Statue of Liberty) Fighting for Drag Queen, Husband and Home<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1969) memorialises the event. The kitsch assemblage of found and discarded objects apes the Statue of Liberty in its shape and form, and is at once a parody and a direct descendent of that emblem of American freedom. As Weinberg explains, Lanigan-Schmidt\u2019s work reconsiders hierarchies of value through its materiality: &#8220;his work is literally put together out of things that people throw away and that they don\u2019t think is valuable.\u201d The petite sculpture repurposes this monument to freedom in order to represent the bodies that are often deemed disposable and, in doing so, exposes America\u2019s definitions of civic liberty as fragile, hypocritical and exclusionary. In a landscape where queer experiences, lives and history were thoughtlessly discarded or destroyed, Lanigan-Schmidt tentatively asserted their importance and value \u2014 if not yet to mainstream society than to others in the LGBTQ+ community.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>2. Visibility \u2014 for the privileged few<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78050,"id":78050,"title":"Peter Hujar Gay Liberation Front Poster Image, 1970 Vintage gelatin silver print, 18 x 12 in. Gift of the Peter Hujar Archive, LLC. 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Gift of the Peter Hujar Archive, LLC. Collection of Leslie-Lohman Museum"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the major changes that Stonewall instigated is something that we still talk a lot about today: visibility. Weinberg explains that, pre-Stonewall, \u2018coming out\u2019 only meant revealing your sexuality or gender identity to other queer people and remaining closeted in the wider world. After the uprising, however, activists encouraged publicly coming out as a political tool to show that queer people really were everywhere. Although earlier writing on LGBTQ+ art focuses on uses of subtext and suggestion, post-Stonewall art has it\u2019s own \u2018coming out\u2019 in terms of adopting a more explicit language of queer expression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ukrainian-American photographer Peter Hujar\u2019s image of joyful youths spilling onto the street, used in the Gay Liberation Front\u2019s posters, is a prime example of this. \u201cGay Liberation Front got all these people together and staged them to look like they\u2019re happy and cheerful and they\u2019re taking over the streets. It\u2019s all about visibility.\u201d However, looking at this sea of smiling white faces, one can\u2019t help but notice the alarming lack of diversity in the image \u2014 a particularly disarming detail when we consider who spearheaded the Stonewall resistance. This, Weinberg explains, is all to do with privilege, in ways that still resonate today. \u201cOne of the things you have to realise about coming out is that it\u2019s not always easy and it may have to do with your particular privilege.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>3. Strategies of persuasion<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78049,"id":78049,"title":"Keith Haring National Coming Out Day, 1988 Offset lithograph, 26 x 23 in. \u00a9 Keith Haring Foundation","filename":"Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","filesize":1657000,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/keith-haring-national-coming-out-day-1988-offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in-keith-haring-foundation\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"keith-haring-national-coming-out-day-1988-offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in-keith-haring-foundation","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":0,"date":"2019-06-28 09:08:42","modified":"2019-06-28 09:28:29","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1653,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","thumbnail-width":87,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1653,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1653,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1653,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","1536x1536-width":1394,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1653,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":11,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Keith-Haring-National-Coming-Out-Day-1988-Offset-lithograph-26-x-23-in.-\u00a9-Keith-Haring-Foundation.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1653}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"Keith Haring National Coming Out Day, 1988 \u00a9 Keith Haring Foundation"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the years preceding Stonewall, queer activism took an \u201ceasy does it\u201d approach but the uprising showed that peaceful protest doesn\u2019t always get the necessary results \u2014 anger sometimes being the only effective tool to hand. Yet the riots didn\u2019t show that radicalism is the only answer, rather that activists must adapt to the specific set of circumstances before them. The commemorative march one year later, and the ongoing impact this has had on the queer liberation movement, has shown that activists, above all, need to be creative with their methods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weinberg highlights a piece by Keith Haring, created for National Coming Out Day in 1988. Depicting a stickman dancing its way out of the closet, Haring\u2019s sprightly work gestures towards queer futurity and beckons the closeted subject to join in the creation of an alternate reality: \u201cThe coming out poster is imagining a world in which it\u2019s joyful to come out. It might not have actually been a joyful thing in that moment but in making a representation of it in that way promotes other people to do it.\u201d Speaking of Haring\u2019s work more generally \u2014 in particular a giant \u201csafe sex\u201d painting also on display in the exhibition \u2014 Weinberg notes: \u201c[it\u2019s] sweet and upbeat and funny but always a bit subversive, and a lot of his work is incredibly obscene. This is to charm you.\u201d Using bold colours and a contagious sense of play, Haring\u2019s work convinces you to look, but also infects you with the spirit of change.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>4. <\/b><b>Subversive sexuality<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78046,"id":78046,"title":"Catherine Opie, Raven (gun), 1989, Inkjet print, 8 x 8 in., \u00a9 Catherine Opie. 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Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spirit of rebellion fostered by Stonewall led more queer individuals to consider their gender identity and sexuality on their own terms. Eschewing respectability politics, they embraced non-conformity, self-styling themselves as queer outlaws. Amongst these are the participants of the leather and bondage scenes immortalised in the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe. Weinberg decries the fact that \u201calthough Mapplethorpe is very famous for his work in the leather scene, many people are not aware that there are artists like Catherine Opie or Morgan Gwenwald who were making images that were also involved with leather.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, some female artists turned to photography to explore versions of female eroticism that don\u2019t privilege the male gaze. \u201cPhotographers like Gwenwald and Tee Corinne were trying to make erotic, even pornographic, images for women that weren\u2019t commodified for men.\u201d Vastly different to the passive models in mainstream pornography, the subject of Catherine Opie\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raven (Gun) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1989) embodies this outlaw mentality. With the sitter\u2019s fixed gaze staring out beyond the confines of the image, body primed for action and finger on the trigger, there\u2019s no pandering to the spectator\u2019s gaze. Charged with an eroticism and the potential for action \u2014 or danger \u2014 the image brings the power and spectacle of sexuality to the fore.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a05.\u00a0<\/span><b>Wilful imagination<\/b><\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":78048,"id":78048,"title":"Stonewall Celebrations, 1969","filename":"Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","filesize":449218,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/stonewall-celebrations-1969\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"","name":"stonewall-celebrations-1969","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":0,"date":"2019-06-28 09:08:37","modified":"2019-06-28 09:29:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1289,"height":1920,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","thumbnail-width":64,"thumbnail-height":96,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","medium-width":1289,"medium-height":1920,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","medium_large-width":1289,"medium_large-height":1920,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","large-width":1289,"large-height":1920,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","1536x1536-width":1031,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","2048x2048-width":1289,"2048x2048-height":1920,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":8,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fred-McDarrah-Celebration-After-Riots-Outside-Stonewall-Inn-June-1969-Gelatin-silver-print-Collection-Pavel-Zoubok.-Courtesy-Pavel-Zoubok-Gallery-New-York.-Photo-Fred-W.-McDarrahGetty-Images.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1289,"wpvr_mobile-height":1920}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":"An unidentifed group of young poeple celebrate outside the boarded-up Stonewall Inn (53 Christopher Street) after riots over the weekend of June 27, 1969. The bar and surrounding area were the site of a series of demonstrations and riots that led to the formation of the modern gay rights movement in the United States. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah\/Getty Images)"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What might strike you as odd about Stonewall is that, despite being such a pivotal event for the LGBTQ+ movement and having inspired so much visual art, no images of the momentous evening exist. This is what has left its legacy vulnerable to white-washing \u2014 as in Roland Emmerich\u2019s 2015 film<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/aug\/07\/stonewall-boycott-claims-roland-emmerich-film-gay-whitewash-sylvia-rivera-marsha-p-johnson\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stonewall<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which erroneously centres on a white, middle class protagonist. Much more representative is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebration After Riots Outside Stonewall Inn, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a photograph taken shortly after the riots by Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah. In lieu of any visual documentation of the actual event, the snapshot\u2019s diverse subjects and atmosphere of wary optimism serves as a partial placeholder. Yet Weinberg argues one of Stonewall\u2019s greatest representational strengths is, paradoxically, this lack of photographic evidence: \u201cThe riot is an image in our heads. Even the fact that we\u2019re celebrating the 50th anniversary is an act of representation, an act of imagining. In a certain way, we were all there: we\u2019ve made Stonewall into the origins of who we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art after Stonewall 1969 &#8211; 1989 runs through to 21 July at the<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/greyartgallery.nyu.edu\/exhibition\/art-stonewall-1969-1989april-23%E2%80%92july-20-2019\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Grey Art Gallery<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leslielohman.org\/project\/art-after-stonewall\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Leslie Lohman Museum<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Stonewall 50: Five artworks explaining the impact of the uprising Stonewall 50: Five artworks explaining the impact of the uprising<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/art-after-stonewall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stonewall 50: Five artworks explaining the impact of the uprising Stonewall 50: Five artworks explaining the impact of the uprising\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On the 50th anniversary of historic Stonewall Inn riot, lead curator of the exhibition \u201cArt after Stonewall 1969-1989,\u201d picks key works that unravel the significance of the rebellion on the LGBTQ+ liberation movement.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/art-after-stonewall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sleek Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sleekmag\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-28T11:05:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-28T15:10:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sleekmag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Verfasst von\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Megan Wallace\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sleek Magazine\",\"description\":\"Sleek is Germany\u2019s leading independent media house\/brand for creativity and innovation located in Berlin the creative capital of the world. 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