Author Talk: Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife

Writer and editor Amelia Abraham is joined by TBC in celebration of the recently published work, Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife. Together, they explore the visual cultures of queer nightlife, considering how photography and image-making have shaped spaces of pleasure, resistance, and community across generations. Reflecting on themes from Sex, Clubs, Dissent, the conversation will trace the power and tension of documenting nightlife, at once preserving fleeting histories and exposing them to new forms of visibility. 

Books will be available for purchase. 

Sex, Clubs, Dissent charts an expansive visual history of queer nightlife through the lens of photographers, filmmakers, and artists. Edited by author Amelia Abraham, the book explores how image-making has fostered, and at times jeopardised, the formation of queer practices, subcultures, and forms of resistance. It asks what our decades-long quest to catalogue and understand nightlife spaces through photography and film can tell us about our various relationships with them, and how photography intersects with pleasure, politics, and protest.

Accesibility
Chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available. 

For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.