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Though it was certainly not the first moment of gay resistance, the 1969 Stonewall Uprisings that occurred in New York City’s Greenwich Village took on new meaning when they were commemorated with the first Gay Pride Liberation March a year later.
“I got lost in the music and I couldn’t get out,” Johnson said in a 1991 interview that appears in the short film “Happy Birthday, Marsha!.” “Still can’t get out of the music.” For Dijon, Gaye’s song alludes to how much of queer life was underground: news traveled and connections were often made through whisper networks, while event producers like drag pageant organizer Flawless Sabrina set up elaborate phone trees to publicize their functions.
“I chose things that I thought would reflect the temperature of the time that have withstood the test of time,” Dijon says of the project. “I hope the visitors discover what liberation sounds like. I hope they discover what freedom sounds like. I hope they discover message music, conscious music, protest music.”
Story by Michael Cuby / Interview by Gottmik / Photography & direction by Brett Loudermilk / Creative & art direction by Zain Curtis / Styling by Catherine Hahn / Hair and makeup by Hatti Rees
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