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La Radical Gai & Lesbianas Sin Duda: Spreading Awareness to the AIDS Epidemic in Spain

Practitioner:
La Radical Gai & Lesbiana Sin Duda

Date:
Dec 1 1994

On December 1, 1994 also known as World AIDS day, participating members from LSD (Lesbianas Sin Duda), La Radical Gai, and other allies sought out to protest against the push back of rejection that many of them were receiving from…

No Pride in Incarceration!

Practitioner:
Familia TQML, QLatinx

Date:
Dec 1 1994

❗❗PRIDE REQUIRES ACTION❗❗ Celebrating Pride? What better way to uplift LGBTQ people’s lives than by joining our campaign to #EndTransDetention? Honor the legacy of Pride by taking action until all of us are free. Sign here & share with 3…

Viral Trans Uplifting Art & Apparel

Practitioner:
@megemikoarat, Meg

Date:
Dec 1 1994

By going viral for the fashionable and aesthetically appeasing art for Trans lives, she has developed a new way to advocate for this cause while simultaneously growing her business. By starting by documenting their journey to living their most authentic…

Mashrou’ Leila

Practitioner:
Mashrou’ Leila

Date:
Dec 1 1994

CAIRO — Seven Egyptians were arrested on charges of promoting homosexuality after concertgoers waved rainbow-colored flags at a rock concert in Cairo last week, Egyptian officials said. The arrests were the latest assault on social freedoms in Egypt under President…

Ana Masreya – Drag

Practitioner:
Ana Masreya

Date:
Dec 1 1994

‘I’m an Egyptian, Muslim drag queen who aims to raise issues about Middle Eastern / LBGTQ issues within the Arab world and Muslim community. For too long it was drilled in my head that I was wrong, that I was…

Untitled

Practitioner:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Date:
Dec 1 1994

In May 1992, a series of 24 billboards displaying an identical image began appearing throughout New York City. They featured a giant close-up black-and-white photograph, without text, of a rumpled bed, pillows still indented from the heads that had rested…

Felipe Romero Beltrán captures young migrants coming-of-age in Seville

Practitioner:
Felipe Romero Beltrán

Date:
Dec 1 1994

Horror stories about treacherous boat journeys from Africa to the Mediterranean far too often make headline news. The men, women and children fleeing their homes to start a new life in Europe become faceless numbers in the media, and are…

Hedonistic pictures of Barcelona’s queer underworld

Practitioner:
Leo Adef

Date:
Dec 1 1994

Topless queer men light spliffs on the beach. A trans man injects testosterone on the toilet. Drag queens nonchalantly scroll through their phones and smoke. These are just some of the images that make up the new book from Leo…

Turkey Erdogan: Women rise up over withdrawal from Istanbul Convention

Practitioner:
Feminists in Turkey

Date:
Dec 1 1994

It has been a tumultuous and anxious week for women in Turkey. When President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a decree at midnight last Friday, annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, women poured onto the streets…

The vital work of women street photographers

Practitioner:
Gulnara Samoilova

Date:
Dec 1 1994

In 2016, photojournalist Gulnara Samoilova was running a successful wedding photography business. Her diverse portfolio of work spans two decades — with images in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library, 9/11 Memorial Museum and Houston Museum of…