This project includes three individual portfolios of photographs on distinctly different aspects of the gay and lesbian community found in Provincetown, Massachusetts and on the national stage in the summer of 1987. American society was not as accepting of authentic sexual identity at that time. The sense of freedom and individual expression as seen in these events foreshadowed much of what we now experience as a cultural shift and changing laws of the land regarding our LBGT communities.
Drag Queen Costume Ball
March on Washington
The Fabulous Dyketones
One summer evening in 1987 I attended a community wide performance event in Provincetown, Massachusetts created to introduce and celebrate various entertainers who were performing in the many night clubs that summer in this vacation mecca at the very tip…