PRIDE STRIDE

LA Pride Kicks Off With Queer Art Pop-Up Galleries

The concept is simple: get a bunch of U-Haul trucks, assign an LGBT artist to each one, and park ’em in a lot around a performance stage.

Voila! It’s Install: WeHo, a sort of pop-up art gallery that kicks off LA’s Pride season, founded and curated by by Mark Cramer and Laura Watts. Click on through for some artsy highlights.

what what
The What What Mini Putt guided golfers though holes that represented milestones in our shared queer history.

toonkey butts

toonkel ukelele

toonkel pussy

toonkel marching
Liz Toonkel presented RIP My Pussy, in which she sang of the travails facing her vagina.

themegoman

themegoman and devan m

devan m

Themegoman and Devan M performed a little Björk.

slippage see saw

slippage see saw boys

The See Saw Slippage by Sheila Malone and Gwynn Shanks featured embedded electronics that activated various video clips.

shades

red
This is a cool attitude.

raised hands
Volunteers have no idea what they’re getting into when Liz Toonkel invites them to participate in pussy-themed performance art.
pete zias as crystal
Pete Zias performs as Crystal, an aimless mess.
martin von sexy
Martin Von Sexy performs a monologue.
lounge
Let’s chill out.
lavender effect

lavender effect pose
The Lavender Effect celebrated our queer past with a lavender makeup station surrounded by LGBT history.

lamuff
LaMuff wows the crowd.
karaoke
A labyrinth in a U-Haul leads to a minotaur and karaoke station.
umbrellas
Jaunty gents.
ian mackinnon
Ian MacKinnon ponders heteronormativity or whatever.
i stole the tv
Has anyone seen the TV?
how do you know
The exhibit How do you Know? by Sarah Barnard asks participants how they know what gender they are.
gavy rainbows

gavy gasmasks

gavy assimilation

gavy 3f
Gavy K would like you to experience some poetry.

emerging
earth to moon
Earth to Moon serves up some coffeehouse realness.
dressed in queer
The performance Dressed in Queer, Cloaked in Now was full of symbolism and things like that.
dog
curtains
boys
bennett schnieder as courtney spoon
Dr. Courtney Spoons lectures on the hidden sexual meanings of Jack and the Beanstalk. You don’t really need that explained, do you?
beloved spirits
Beloved Spirits presents an interpretive dance.
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