Photographer and bi-con Nan Goldin announces she will be launching a two-week print sale with the proceeds will be split three ways between the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, The Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Trans Income Project.
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Nan Goldin is often known for her work in documenting the bohemian LGBTQ+ subculture and her work focusing on the AIDs crisis. Her art was heavily focused on the gay, trans, and post-punk scene of New York. Her 1985 exhibition “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” exposed viewers to scenes of queer tenderness, abusive straight relationships, and other glimpses into private worlds seldom seen in mainstream art at the time. Goldin is also behind the 2022 documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, about the opioid epidemic and its impact on the art world.
Recently, anti-trans legislation has become even more prevalent and creates a future of uncertainty amongst trans individuals. Goldin saw this as a motivating factor in her decision to raise funds through a print sale of her work.
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“Hundreds of anti-trans bills are threatening trans people’s safety, stability, and health,” Goldin said to Them. “Transphobia has long plagued legislation and culture, and this print sale centers the needs of trans people, raising funds for organizations directly working with, responding to, and supporting them.”
Among the works that will be sold are two prints of Goldin’s portraits: The first is “Jimmy Paulette at Wigstock,” with the subject being hairstylist Jimmy Paul, in a blonde wig, attending the renowned drag festival Wig Stock. The other print is a photo of the writer Thora Siemsen taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each print is $250 and limited to one print per customer.
The Trans Income Project provides financial assistance to transgender people, particularly sex workers and other trans people in vulnerable situations. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project is a legal aid organization for transgender people and was started in 2002 by transgender rights activist and legal attorney Dean Spade. The organization was named in honor of transgender rights activist Sylvia Rivera, who died a month before the organization was established. Spade was with the organization from 2002-2006 and during his tenure he presented testimony to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, achieved a victory for transgender youth in foster care in Jean Doe v. Bell.
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