1/8/2023 0 Comments Brave and beautiful cast![]() A book sits on the nightstand from the night before, the window is opened halfway, and morning light bathes the bodies. Their heads peek out from under the blanket, curled together so closely that neither rests on the shared pillow, their bodies becoming one under their cover. 1), two women sleep tenderly against one another in bed. When asked by her subjects why she wanted to take their photograph, Gottschalk would respond: ‘Because you are beautiful, and I never want to forget you.’ ![]() ![]() These images could only come from within their community and the profound connection these women built together. She waited until there was an established trust between them, resulting in photographs with a palpable authenticity and intimacy, as the subjects eventually revealed their truest selves to her camera. Gottschalk approached her subjects with the utmost care and patience. In tender black-and-white portraits, Gottschalk shows a wide-ranging lesbian and queer spectrum, diverse identities cutting across race, class, and gender identity. Visitors to Brave, Beautiful Outlaws were invited into a sacred space: a community built from shared experiences, desires, and ideas, from honesty and trust, from love and sex, from acceptance and communal self-exploration. In 1969, at the age of 18, Gottschalk saw a small notice in the Village Voice for a Gay Liberation Front (GLF) meeting, and ‘everything changed’. She became an active participant in the movement and deeply entrenched within a community of queer radical activists in the city. Gottschalk’s coming of age and coming out coincided with the dawn of the gay liberation movement in New York. With tenderness and warmth, Gottschalk captured honest portrayals of radical lesbian communities and queer counterculture in New York and California in the late 1960s and 1970s. Though she never considered herself a professional, Gottschalk spent decades photographing the world around her: a decidedly queer world, filled with her lesbian and transgender siblings, her chosen and blood family, her lovers, her fellow activists, and herself. The exhibition Brave, Beautiful Outlaws: The Photographs of Donna Gottschalk at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art marks the first time Gottschalk’s work is on view to the public. ![]() 1949) fiercely protected her photographic archive and the subjects who revealed themselves to her camera. For nearly five decades, Donna Gottschalk (b.
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