Liberate the Bar! Queer Nightlife, Activism, and Spacemaking is a multimedia exhibition that sheds light on the intricate relationship between nightlife, activism, and creative expression across space and time.
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Past Exhibitions
The Gutter Art of Stephen Varble: Genderqueer Performance Art in the 1970s Photographs by Greg Day
On:
Mar 1 - May 17 2019
This exhibition explores the ways in which Stephen Varble's disruptive guerilla performance art has lived on through Greg Day's vibrant photographs that captured his inventive costumes, transformed trash, and public confrontations.
In Search of Baba Singh
On:
Feb 27 - Mar 9 2019
In Search of Baba Singh takes as its jumping off point the arrest record of Baba Singh, a laborer from Punjab, India, who was arrested in 1914 in California for 'infamous crimes against nature'; a statute that at the time would criminalize a range of sexual behaviors including homosexuality.
Michael Childers: Distortions
On:
Oct 20 2018 - Jan 27 2019
An exhibition of Michael Childers's surreal Distortions series
A grammar built with rocks
On:
Oct 13 - Dec 21 2018
This exhibition examines artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land
“I Almost Ran Over Liza Minnelli Today”: Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele in L.A., 1976–77
On:
Jul 8 - Sep 23 2018
This exhibition gathers together the pioneering works of Canadian video artists Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele made together in Venice Beach during the 1970s for the first time in Southern California
Lost & Found: Safer Sex Activism
On:
Mar 17 - Jul 1 2018
This exhibition examines thirty years of inspiring and defiant safer sex and harm reduction activism through the collections at ONE Archives at the USC Libraries
Transgender History in 99 Objects: Legends & Mythologies
On:
Mar 21 - Aug 1 2015
Organized by the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art, or MOTHA, Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects examines objects that hold significance in narrating the history of transgender communities.