The Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles is currently running an exhibition called “$3 Bill: Evidence of Queer Lives.” The exhibition focuses on LGBTQ+ history in the United States from the 1900s to the present day through the use of historical paintings, photos, and other memorabilia.
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The exhibition is curated by Pietro Rigolo and runs until September 28th. It will explore events before the Gay Liberation such as the Harlem Drag Balls and artistic works from queer icons like Claude Cahun, Jean Cocteau, Elisar con Kuppfer, and David Hockney.
Gay liberation events such as the Stonewall Uprising and the historical figures associated with them will be covered, the explosion of LGBTQ+ creativity and expression that followed through artists like Harmony Hammond, Robert Mapplethorpe, the horrors of the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s that followed, and to the broader more inclusive understanding of gender identity we see today.
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This exhibition is the Getty Center’s first ever exclusively queer presentation, and it’s not every day you see queer history acknowledged or covered by American history institutions. I wish more people would incorporate LGBTQ+ history into the curriculum, but often enough in high school we are fed a one-sided narrative on topics like the Civil Rights movement that paints inaccurate portraits of the beliefs of many civil rights leaders, such as Malcom X, in a way that tries to avoid any kind of criticism about this country’s crimes.
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