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Annette Dragon Photographs of Gay Demonstrations on Display at USM

August 2, 2005

An exhibit of Annette Dragon photographs documenting struggle for equality by the gay community will on display through Friday, October 14, on the 6th floor of the University of Southern Maine Glickman Library, located on Forest Ave., Portland.

The exhibit, “Act Up/Fight Back/Take Pictures: Photographs of Annette Dragon,” is free and open to the public during the library’s normal operating hours which are 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday; and 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday. Parking is available in the USM Parking Garage on Bedford St., or at metered spots near the Library.

Dragon photographed her first demonstration, a 1991 ACT UP Labor Day event staged in Kennebunkport while President George H. Bush was at his summer home.  Those first photographs were published in the local gay newspaper, Our Paper.  In early 1992, they appeared in the radical gay monthly, Apex, which Dragon co-founded. 

Dragon’s photographs have appeared in several national exhibits and publications including Out Magazine.  This exhibit is based on a show she mounted at USM in 2000 after which she gave the photographs and her papers to USM’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Collection, housed in the Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine in the Glickman Library.

For more information, contact Susie Bock at 780-4269.

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