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Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988), Dreams of a Summer Night, 1967. Acrylic and printed paper collage on panel, 18 x 22 in.

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Nina Simone at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, June 1968. 

Photos by Jan Persson

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Sabreen Group (صابرين) with Fadwa Tuqan (فدوى طوقان‎), 2000 [The Sabreen Association for Artistic Development Collection, The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive, The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit. Sabreen Group]

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Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, “Night Singer”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

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For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of what is separated from us by time or distance suddenly being made tangible. Dreams, memories, the sacred they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is. His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.

Spring Snow

Yukio Mishima

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Central Park. New York City. 1971

Photo: Ernest Cole

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Roger Nellens (Belgian, 1937-2021), Le Zwin, 2004. Oil on canvas, 106 x 198 cm

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Praia de Boa Viagem - Recife Em 1968.

Photo Lou Lomheim

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Colombia, 1972

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“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles, and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving until the right action arises by itself?”

— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 15 (via childrenofthetao)

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Eavan Boland, The Journey and Other Poems (Carcanet Press, 1987)

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California

1987

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A gay “kiss-in” demonstration Yonge and Bloor streets, Toronto, 17 July 1976

L to R: David Foreman, Tim McCaskell, Ed Jackson, Merv Walker, David Gibson, Michael Riordon. Credit: Gerald Hannon, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, accession 1986-032/08P(35).

On February 9, 1976, gay activists Tom Field and Bill Holloway were arrested at the corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto for kissing in public. They were charged with obstructing the sidewalk and committing an indecent act. Ironically, the men had been posing for photographs for an article on homophobia to be published in the now-defunct newspaper Alternative to Alienation. …

Field and Holloway were found guilty of committing an indecent act by Judge Charles Drukarsh on July 13, 1976, and were each fined $50. The ruling infuriated Gay Alliance Toward Equality [GATE], the Body Politic, and members of the community. The need for protest was in the air, but only a very special kind of protest would do. 

A few days later, on July 17, GATE and the Body Politic sponsored a kiss-in to support the right for gay people to publicly show affection. About twenty people paraded in same-sex couples at Yonge and Bloor streets, kissing as they walked. Policemen watched from the sidelines, but did not intervene. The protesters had made their point. — Donald W. McLeod

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Aunts and Uncles, Photo by Michael Jang, 1973

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Reid House (1965) in Santa Monica, CA, USA, by Wallace Reid. Photo by Julius Shulman.

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