Sylvia Rivera and RuPaul being gorgeous and gay in front of Trump tower is iconic.
shot her first Pride march. A mainstay in the downtown gay scene of the '80s and '90s, headquartered at Club 57, Henny started going to Pride simply to support her friends like Tom Rubnitz, Keith Haring, Rollerena and Lady Bunny.The colors, costumes and combustive emotions of Pride are any street photographer's dream, but for Henny, the event became a muse.
Henny's archive shows Pride as the shape-shifting phenomenon it is: a day that has become whatever the queer community needs. She shows Pride as a party, a protest, a funeral, and a battleground.Lovingly lighting naked embraces and proud poses, her photos archive the euphoria of people living in a country that hated them, on a day that was a snaphsot of an alternative future.
Her images don't neglect the hatred lurking just on the other side of the barricades, exposing the counter-protestors who used to gather along the parade route and at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
"Remember that you're standing on the shoulders of the people that brought this, like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and all the people who fought the fight. Celebrate that.
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