Queer From Here

Geographically specific portrait project exploring modern queer identity by @laurenmorrelltabak. Here to facilitate visibility, meaningful conversations & ❤️

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Honored to have @ArachnologyNerd founder of @500QueerSci as part of #queerfromhere photographed last week @calacademy https://t.co/wEXF8CTYdX #queerallyear

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Starting to roll out the images from our first Los Angeles pop up shoot! Find them on IG Thank you Seeker for hosting! https://t.co/UIV6cXv6wE

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Pop up shoot in Los Angeles June 9th! Free! Tell ya friends! https://t.co/Fnal0WmbFi

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Keep smilin’! More to come next year! Want to support the project? Follow https://t.co/fqqBYmfXSr

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“I've been wearing a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and jeans since I was 4 or 5 years old, because I believe I've always been a cowboy and a country singer” - @jaimewyattmusic on gender, sexuality and country music. 📸 @laurentabak #queerfromhere Read more: https://t.co/R0dZBQwXfh

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“There is such a high expectation for trans women to present high femme, and after multiple failed attempts I know that’s not me. My heros have always been butches, the people my mother called “Rough Women” growing up” - Esther https://t.co/bwZxrxcSdE

[Trish Bendix @trishbendix]

But is she single

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“I am a queer musician/artist Japanese-Filipino-American, and a New Yorker, and I live in the Bay, and I happen to use the pronouns she/her, in that order. So queerness is pretty important to me.” - @yoko_okay More from Yoko: https://t.co/ToXrFWFioA

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"Growing up in the 90's in LA, as soon as I realized I liked girls, I quickly met so many other teenagers who were gay or bi (“queer” wasn’t a popular word yet) and Mexican-American like me, which was so validating." Jessica, 40

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“I began teaching at a time when code switching was essential. I wanted to avoid the homophobia of parents or administrators, while also being gay enough that my queer students would recognize me as an ally. “ Michael, 49
#saygay #queerfromhere

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"My tribe, the Atakapa-Ishak, were among the earliest, if not the earliest, Indigenous nations that a European noticed to have acceptance of varying sexual and gender identities." Historian Jeffrey U. Darensbourg, New Orleans, LA. More from him: https://t.co/jk6T3oQGb7

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"As someone who can ‘pass’ [as straight] I once found it incredibly frustrating how often I had to come out to others" - @thejaninejames Read more from Janine at https://t.co/hCIsceYPhC

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Drop-in #queerfromhere portrait session @HaightStreetArt Friday 12:45-3:45pm! Details: https://t.co/9g3ti1sdNK

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"I identified with hippie counterculture and left-wing politics way before I identified as gay" - Filmmaker David Weissman. Read more from David: https://t.co/6Z1wONqVsy

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"That’s the thing about perception of self, it’s subjective, it’s every interaction, it’s every new friend, it’s every rest stop, it’s every drug store and it’s 100 times a day." - @MalBlum

Read more from Mal: https://t.co/lF0cIe7IEk

#queer #nonbinary #queerportraitproject

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"I was sought out by other queers, but I was in denial of my queerness and I didn’t know what “trans” was" - @RealSwanSong
#TransIsBeautiful #queerportraitseries #queerstories
More from Swan: https://t.co/gihlMXzaq2

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🙌 to public people sharing private lives as artists/activists "The difficulty bi people can sometimes have finding acceptance from loved ones both gay and straight can be heartbreaking." - @aaronleetasjan1 #BiVisibilityDay Read more from Aaron here: https://t.co/jXv2zlXGMf

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"There was a lot of self-doubt surrounding how “coming out” would negatively affect my relationships with friends and family." -@kylecrier
Read more from Kyle: https://t.co/Ja5U54y8we

#BisexualVisibilityWeek

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Expanding this #queer #portrait #documentaryphoto project to twitter! For more about what this, why I do it, and to see all the portraits please visit https://t.co/f1nUhYLjqJ