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Seeking Stories of Queer California: A Hidden Histories Online Exhibit

The Soul of Lilith, 1892

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1. Cover for Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen, 1982
2. Rope, 1947-1948
3. Gold record for "Melissa Etheridge" album by Melissa Etheridge, 1988
4. The Soul of Lilith, 1892
5. Finocchio's: House of the Fabulous Female Impressonators, undated A postcard of Finocchio's, that was a nightclub and bar in San Francisco. It shows five female impersonators standing in the back and five sitting in the front. The steps are a black and white checkered pattern and the background appears to be the stage. From left to right, starting in the back, a performer is wearing a bright pink robe with light pink feather lining, a silver patterned dress, silver shoes, and bright pink long earrings. Next the performer is wearing a pink and gold robe with a high collar, a pink dress, and a pink wig. The center performer is wearing a bright pink dress with a black belt. Next the performer is wearing a black and silver waistcoat with bright pink harem pants. At the end of the back row is a performer in a dark purple robe and dress, with peacock feathers and a peacock feather headdress. The five women in the front row are seated, all in similar 1920s flapper dancer outfits in different colors. From left to right, the first two women are turned slightly to the left and are in light purple outfits with pink feather headbands. In the center, facing forward, she is in a yellow dress with a green feather headband. Next, turned slightly to the right, she is in a dark purple dress and a dark purple feathered headband. Lastly, also turned to the right, she is in an orange dress and has an orange feathered headband.
6. Tan Suit Ensemble by James Galanos, 1962
7. Excerpt from Sketchbook 11, Morris Scott Dollens, undated
8. Laura Aguilar, #6, from the series Plush Pony, 1992
9. Christopher Isherwood, typescript second draft of A Single Man, 1963
10. Don Bachardy, portrait of Stephen Spender, June 21, 1976
11. Pandora's Box, 1929
12. William Haines, rendering of living room of the Sidney and Frances Brody residence, Beverly Hills, circa 1952
13. Florence Yoch, landscape design, “A Hillside Garden for Mr. George Cukor, West Hollywood,” 1936
14. Gown by Gilbert Adrian, 1948
15. Eloise Klein Healy, typescript draft of poem, “There Are No Words for the Sexual Acts of Lesbians,” circa 1984
16. Queerios, 2015
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe,” said the French novelist Gustave Flaubert. Poets, novelists, playwrights, and creative writers of all kinds have been interpreting the world around them through writing for millennia. LGBTQ+ authors use their writing to ask questions about themselves and their world, to reveal themselves or hide themselves, to connect with other members of the community, and to understand what they believe.
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1. Portrait of Marie Corelli, 1908
2. Letter from Marie Corelli to unknown recipient, undated
3. Kenneth Anger, undated
4. Cover and Dedication from The Treasure of Heaven, 1906
5. The Soul of Lilith, 1892
6. A celebration of adult Bar and Bat Mitvahs at Congregation Kol Ami, 2000
7. Beth Chayim Chadashim at the Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade, 1979
8. Church leaders at the March on Washinton, 1987
9. I Lied, 2021 Artist: Alex Donis. I Lied is the culmination of an unfinished work that began in the mid-1990s after completing a single lithography poster of the same image. The edition depicts the Virgin Mary in her iconic contemplative stare and delicate hand gestures but with the words, I Lied subtly placed before the sacred heart. Through these simple words, the artist forces the viewer to see Mary beyond her divinity, but her humanness. A human with faults who perhaps may have lied to protect her loved ones, or to hide a secret or a painful truth. However, the criticism here heavily lies on the religious institutions who through the prevalent imagery, authority, and doctrine, have exploited and harmed many with minimal accountability. Part of the exhibit "At the Heart of It: LGBT Representation at Self Help Graphics", curated by Ruben Esparza.
10. Sister Karen Boccalero, circa 1990
11. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, circa 1954
12. Concern magazine, Vol. 1, Nr. 1, 1966
13. The Prodigal, Vol. II, No. 20, May 21, 1971
14. Every 10th Jesus is a Queer, circa 1990
15. Holy Homophobia!, 1990