Visual Arts
Matthew Leifheit: Gay Archive
Pedro Zamora Capitol Hill November 1st 1993 (VHS Recording)
GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2024
September 4th - November 12, 2024
Crowell and West Galleries, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
9:00am - 5:00pm daily
Opening Reception: October 3, 4:30 - 6:30pm
Artist Talk: October 3, 12:50pm
Room 204, Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts
Take a virtual tour of the exhibit.
Since 2021 Matthew Leifheit has traveled the country visiting and photographing in queer archives. Leifheit describes: “During the 1970s and 80s, independent archives were established by LGBTQ Americans to collect materials that major institutions would not. These materials—pictures, letters, T-shirts, protest signs, ephemera, and the like—document queer culture and identity in the 20th century, in relation to the rise of the US gay rights movement. More importantly, they contain the evidence of many peoples’ lives who would otherwise be lost to history, for reasons ranging from homophobia to racial prejudice, sexism and AIDS.” Union College presents this series of photographs and video at our Crowell and West Galleries in the Feigenbaum Center for Visual Arts.