Though Pride month 'technically' ends today, Pride for LGTBQ+ folk is year-round and this week's guest embodies that to the fullest. Ghislain Pascal is the co-founder of London's Little Black Gallery (@tlbgallery) and creator of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! (@boysfineart) a publication and platform dedicated to promoting queer and gay photography including exhibitions, books, a bi-annual magazine, photography courses, competitions, and an online art platform.

It now represents more than 65 photographers from 30 countries - including China, India, Iran, Poland, Russia, and Turkey where gay rights are repressed and queer lives are under constant threat. 

In our conversation, we talk about the challenges of promoting queer artists, how he combats pervasive institutional homophobia, being kicked off Instagram, building a global platform, and his advice for artists everywhere.  

Head over to the BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! site to purchase the magazine and original works by emerging and established gay and queer photographers.

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Happy Pride Month! In honor of LGBTQ+ Pride, we're focusing on queer creators. This week we speak with Louky Keijsers Koning (@loukykk),  director of the estate of Barbara Hammer (@barbarahammer1). 

Barbara is a feminist filmmaker and pioneer of queer cinema who made over 90 moving image works as well as performances, installations, photographs, collages and drawings over a 45-year career. Regarded as the first lesbian art filmmaker, her works playfully and relentlessly challenged accepted norms and taboos of queerness, blazing the trail for generations of lesbian and queer artists.

We hope you enjoy this episode celebrating Barbara's life and multifaceted work. You can learn more about her work and grant program sponsored by her estate at BarbaraHammer.com and see her work on view at AMP Gallery in Provincetown (@amp_artmktptown).

Wishing you a happy PRIDE month! In celebration of LGBTQ Pride, we’re dedicating the next two episodes to two leaders in the field of LGBTQ film and photography. First we speak with Louky Keijsers Koning (@loukykk), the director of the estate of Barbara Hammer (@barbarahammer1) a Feminist filmmaker and pioneer of queer cinema, who made over 90 moving image works as well as performances, installations, photographs, collages and drawings over a 45-year career. Regarded as the first lesbian art filmmaker, her works playfully and relentlessly challenged accepted norms and taboos of queerness blazing the trail for generations of lesbian and queer artists.

Next we speak with Ghislain Pascal (@ghislain.pascal), co-founder and director of London’s Little Black Gallery (@tlbgallery) and publisher of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! (@boysfineart) A bi-annual print publication and online platform that promotes queer and gay photography. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! represents over 65 photographers from 30 countries - including China, India, Iran, Poland, Russia and Turkey where gay rights are repressed and queer lives under constant threat.

We’re so excited to feature these pioneers in and supporters of LGBTQ artists and look forward to sharing our insightful conversations about their work. Stay tuned for the premiere!