An Evening with Stanley Stellar: A Celebration of Pride and Progress

Join us as we embark on a five-decade journey of the LGBTQIA+ community through the lens of Stanley Stellar. Celebrated for his powerful observations of street life and empathic studio portraits, Stellar’s photographs acutely define the freedom, beauty, fear, and joy of one of NYC’s most historic and influential periods from the Stonewall riots of 1969 through the Gay Liberation Movement and beyond. Stellar’s vivid document of the West Village’s long-gone Christopher Street Piers, the first Gay Pride Parades, and individuals facing the unfathomable realities of the HIV/AIDS epidemic bear witness to both the struggles and triumphs of the human experience.