On Selfhood: Young Lesbians
At New York City's LGBT Center, Feb. 8, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Read my review of this exhibition at The LGBT Review:
On Selfhood arrives at a time when lesbians are actively counteracting decades of lesbian bar closures. According to historian Greggor Mattson, the US had 15 documented Lesbian bars before the pandemic in 2019, an abysmally low number compared to 200 documented spaces in 1980. By contrast, gay men’s bars during the same dates decreased from 1200+ to 200+. The exhibit also tackles this question from the perspective of young people who aren’t allowed at bars anyway, asking: what spaces of assembly can young lesbians today look forward to?
A Selection of Photographs from the project collection:
Photo credits for this selection, in no particular order: Sofi, Carson, Sasha, Nina,