from The Chroma Museum: Rooms B & C
Stephen Mead
October 2019
Bayard Rustin, Three Cheers and a Dance fo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin
youtu.be/BxhKgnyWcuw
The Chroma Museum is comprised of a montage series entitled “From Nostalgia through Now and Beyond”. This series is an homage to international LGBT individuals, couples, organizations, allies —and the circumstances, both good and bad, which created the context for their lives— predominantly pre-Stonewall.
Begun in 2015 the aim of this series is not to be a definitive sociological study so much as an overview of the bravery, heart, and time it takes for progressive strides to be made. It also shows the cyclical nature of such movements and how, for many cultures and populations globally, these strides are still up against a great deal of ignorance, oppression and violence.
The superimposition of unknown same sex couples from brownie cameras etc., combined with better known figures like Harry Hay or Barbara Gittings, embraces the diverse heroism (whether sought or accidental), and triumph while acknowledging the cost, the casualties lost along the way.
Ultimately the message of this series is that where there is love there is hope.
Bessie Smith and Gladys Bentley, Singing Beyond the Blues
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith
youtu.be/UHoXdHbMetE
youtu.be/xDUX-QmT1sM
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Bentley
Bet Van Beeren, Come Lets Meet Up at Cafe t Mandje
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bet_van_Beeren
Cecil Williams Believed Nelson Mandela’s Drive to Freedom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Williams_(anti-apartheid_activist)
Compton’s Before Stonewall
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton%27s_Cafeteria_riot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIt_ExhfGJM
Count Eigil Valdemar Knuth, Adventure and Art
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigil_Knut
Beauford Delaney, What Grace for Genius
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauford_Delaney
Bryher and H.D. (Annie Winifred Ellerman and Hilda Doolittle), Two hearts, Two Minds
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryher_(novelist)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.D. youtu.be/zIYKyP6LiHg
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A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. After 30 years of being published in small zines and eventually on the web, he is thankful that he has managed to keep a day job for the health insurance.
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