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John Dugdale
Pride Week
, 2007
Paper fans
12¼"
x 8"
Collection of Paul Bridgewater
Commissioned for Pride Week 2007 at the
Church of St. Luke in the Fields in New York City,
this fan shows two hands embracing, symbolizing
acceptance of all people, and identifies a positive
connection between this cause and the Episcopal
Church, one of the few denominations to accept
same-sex marriage and ordain LGBTQI clergy.
Dugdale, diagnosed HIV-positive over twenty-five
years ago, is nearly blind. His theme, the triumph
of the creative spirit, underlines how his infirmity
forced him to see and photograph in a new and
immediate way.
Chloe Dzubilo
The Rage of 10,000
, 2008
Pen, pencil, paper
17"
x 14"
Dzubilo was a prominent artist-activist for transgender individ-
uals and those living with HIV/AIDS who died in 2011 and
received a degree in gender studies at the City University of
New York. After her diagnosis in 1987, the transgender artist
became a long-time volunteer for the LGBT Community
Center’s Gender Identity Project and served in the project’s
transgender HIV prevention team. As part of the political group
Transsexual Menace, she directed one of the first federally
funded HIV prevention programs for transsexual sex workers.
She founded
EquiAids
,
an equestrian program for children
living with HIV/AIDS, in 2001, and in 2003 was appointed
to the HIV and Human Service Planning Council of New York.
