Tigermedia - The Lavender Line: Coming Out in Queens
The Lavender Line: Coming Out in Queens
Date: November 13th, 2017
Duration:
5m:25s
The Lavender Line
Coming Out in Queens
Hosted at the QCC Art Gallery
November 13, 2017 through January 17, 2018
Curator
Lisa Scandaliato
Filmed by
Victor Peña
Edited by
Victor Peña
Music
"Awaiting Return"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Project Supervisor
Phillip Roncoroni
QCC Art Gallery Executive Director
Faustino Quintanilla
QCC Art Gallery Assistant Director
Lisa Scandaliato
Special Thanks
Larry Nelson
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY
Photographs in this exhibition are courtesy of the
Daniel Dromm Photograph Collection,
LaGuardia and Wagner Archives,
LaGuardia Community College/CUNY.
The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY and the New York City Council, through the office of Daniel Dromm (District 25).
Until the early 1990s, most New Yorkers associated the city’s LGBTQ population with the Manhattan neighborhood Greenwich Village. The Queens Pride Parade, inaugurated in Jackson Heights in 1993 by activists Daniel Dromm and Maritza Martinez, changed this, revealing a large LGBTQ community in the city’s most diverse borough. To mark the 25th Anniversary of the Parade, The Lavender Line: Coming Out in Queens provides snapshots of Queens LGBTQ history in recent decades, highlighting the contributions of several prominent activists from the borough, including Queensborough Community College IT Senior Associate Larry Nelson, a member of the Queens Chapter of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). The parade, a reflection of the borough’s ethnic and racial diversity, remains an opportunity to come out and celebrate amid cheering neighbors, festive music, and colorful floats.
The exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, LaGuardia Community College/CUNY and the New York City Council, through the office of Daniel Dromm (District 25).