Dennis Jenkins

1975

A man lights up his cigarette with the flames of a bus burned by anti-government demonstrators in Brazil

The whole Pepsi commercial thing reminded me that people always mis-remember the famous flower in the gun barrel photo as being a young woman. It wasn’t. The photo, taken by Bernie Boston, is of George Edgerly Harris III better known by his stage name Hibiscus. He was a member of the San Francisco based radical gay liberation theater troupe the Cockettes. He died of AIDS in 1982 at the time AIDS was still referred to by the name GRID which stood for Gay Related Immuno-Deficiency. The photo was taken at a protest at the Pentagon. 

I get the subject is important, but please dont erase Bernie. I knew him personally and he deserves to be remembered and by only remembering the subject, a white man, you erase a black man.

Photos of gay activists protesting outside Trump Tower for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS in 1989.

Herbert List, Grotesque Figure, Park of Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy, 1952

Moebius: Starwatcher illustrated by Jean Giraud, 1986.

‘Conversation between the Moon and a Star’ by Paul Rumsey

The Evening Star, Washington DC, October 16, 1918