The Stories of Those Who Lost Decades in the Closet
A new photography exhibit invites viewers to contemplate the emotional toll of discrimination.
The Rev. Magora Kennedy. The Rev. Magora Kennedy, an 82-year-old on the fight for LGBT+ rights
On a quiet block in downtown Brooklyn, a new photography exhibit housed inside a senior living center invites viewers to consider an essential question: How do we measure the emotional and social costs of discrimination?
The exhibit, “Not Another Second,” shot in 2019 by a German photographer, Karsten Thormaehlen, profiles 12 older adults who identify as L.G.B.T.+ (the “Q” is deliberately missing because the word “queer” was often used as a pejorative term against the people profiled), through a series of portraits and video interviews.