“Pride and Protest,” an exhibition of photos by Fred W. McDarrah at the Center for Photography at Woodstock in Kingston, chronicles Manhattan’s early queer liberation movement.
By Ben Rendich
One of the great cultural legacies of New York’s early queer liberation movement is the photographs that captured its evolution: from jarring nighttime snapshots of police brutality to stirring daytime vistas of activists parading through the streets. Yet as these images proliferate in history books, advertisements, and social media posts, it can be easy to lose sight of the courageous souls who captured them in the first place.…
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