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The last Sunday in June

Name: The last Sunday in June
Author: Jamel Shabazz; essays by Kelefa Sanneh and Emil Welbekin
ISBN: 9781576871720

by Jamel Shabazz; essays by Kelefa Sanneh and Emil Welbekin

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On the last Sunday in June, New York City celebrates Gay Pride Month by staging a parade of floats showboating south down Fifth Avenue to Christopher Street. Originally staged to celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, which mark the birth of the Gay Pride movement and the eventual recognition of rights for gays and lesbians, Gay Pride Month now takes over the West Village in a parade that attracts close to a million people of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, and classes. The four-on-the-floor thump of house music pumps as caravans of divas, boob-flapping biker gals, and costumed creatures preen, primp, and pucker for cameras and spectators on the street. Equally colorful is the crowd, clapping and cheering for the performers before parading about town themselves.

As a follow-up to his crazy successful, fashion and pop culture-influencing book of Hip Hop's early days, Back In The Days, photographer Jamel Shabazz takes a sharp turn in bringing to light a vastly original - and under-documented—emerging subculture in Last Sunday In June. Drawing from an enormous cast of eye-catching characters, Shabazz showcases an extraordinary collection of luscious lesbians, tasteful transsexuals, and dramatic drag queens done up in their Sunday best to celebrate Gay Pride.

About the Author, Jamel Shabazz; essays by Kelefa Sanneh and Emil Welbekin

Jamel Shabazz is the author of Back in the Days (powerHouse Books, 2001). His photographs have appeared in publications including The Source, Vibe, TRACE, Flaunt, Mass Appeal, Jalouse, Black Book, OneWorld, and Honey. Shabazz’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York; by Kangol at the Dazed & Confused Gallery, London; by adidas and Lodown at adidas Originals, Berlin; and in Trace’s True Signs, Paris. His debut book, Back in the Days, has received astounding critical acclaim and commercial success since its initial release in January 2001. Shabazz was born in Brooklyn and lives in Long Island, New York.

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Commemorating New York's Stonewall Riots of June 1969, the last Sunday (and Saturday) of every June finds Greenwich Village electric with gay pride events and activity. In 1990, two young women in New York's Washington Square Park suggested that Shabazz, a documentary photographer, check it out, after he asked them where to find "drama and flava." After some initial discomfort, Shabazz began documenting the celebration annually, showing off the diversity and energy of the gay community. Moving from people in metallic outfits to those in very little at all, Shabazz captures picketers, revelers and people in love; transgender, multiracial, cross-class and totally engaged, Pride Day draws celebrants from around the world. Shabazz previously published Back in the Days, a collection of his shots of street gangs in New York in the 1980s; as New York Times reporter Kalefa Sanneh writes in an included essay, "Where many street photographers emphasize the dignity of their subjects, Shabazz seems just as interested in their glamour." In pages of photographs uninterrupted by text, the glamour and dignity of the queer community sparkles. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.