We don’t know who these lovely ladies are. Tom Arndt’s Gay Pride Rally, Minneapolis, 1981Įven drag queens had perms in the ’80s. Here, four images that trace this history through the collection.ġ. Yet many, even at at the time of their creation, were understood in that context by those in the know. Sebastian, David-they’re just beautiful men, right?). The majority of works in the MIA collection by gay artists or capturing gay life have not been acknowledged in such terms (St. This weekend is the annual Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minneapolis, the first since same-sex marriage became legal in Minnesota-a goal scarcely on the radar when the festival began as a gay-rights protest in 1972. A brief history of LGBT pride in four images at the MIA June 26, 2014
