Trailblazers Park

Artist - TM Davy

Drinking Fountain:
“STAR Fountain” is a mosaic drinking fountain in transcendent celebration of the dawning spirit of Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and their Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries.

Artist - Carlos Motta

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Detailed portrait drawing of Zuni Native American lhamana We’wha (1849-1896)

Artist - Carlos Pisco

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My tribute to Frank Kameny, titled The Kameny Way, was created digitally and inspired by his work as an astronomer. The flag represents the discovery by a new generation of one of the most significant figures in the American gay rights movement.

Artist - DonChristian Jones

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The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
― James Baldwin

Artist - Eric Lesh

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When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
― Bayard Rustin

Artist - Hugo Gyrl

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Harvey Milk was a multi-faceted character, I tried to depict strong moments of his life in illustrations around him. From his days in the Navy, to his hippie days represented by flowers, to his successful “clean up after your dog” campaign, and finally a deadly Twinkie which according to the law was responsible for the end of his life.

Artists - Edgar Mosa & Joe McShea

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Joe and Edgar’s piece for Jerry Herman is a digitally modeled image that quietly celebrates the palette with which Jerry created his brilliant music: the twelve notes of the chromatic scale.

Artist - Joseph Conforti

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I was truly excited to be chosen to create a work of art representing The Supreme Court Plaintiffs who were our brave brothers and sisters who were not afraid to take our collective fights for equality and justice to the highest court in the land. These trailblazers represented people from all genders, races and sexual orientations. I choose to paint the court in the iconic color pink and to place it on ALL the colors of the spectrum, representing all of our collective humanities. Hopefully we can all grasp the intense fights these heroic trailblazers took on, and not forget the obvious battles we still face as LGBTQ+ humans.

Artist - Lyle Ashton Harris

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Audre Lorde

Artist - Martine Gutierrez

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Carmen was always a visionary. A cultivator of collective liberation––recognizing that all our struggles are intimately connected––we have to work together to create the kind of world we know is possible. Carmen was also a fierce butch known for wearing sharp suits and ties, so made sure to include some style.

Artist - Nicole Eisenman

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Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are openly.
― Edie Windsor

Artist - Raul De Nieves

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Invasion Drag Queens

Artist - Richard Des Jardin

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In honoring Larry Kramer, I collaged paper and acrylics morphing the colors of the Silence=Death logo, a result of the ACT-UP movement that he spear-headed.

Artist - Ryan Ponder McNamara

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My first impulse was to use the flag to educate viewers about Pauli's life. When I began researching her, I myself was shocked to realize a figure of such importance to so many diverse movements had escaped my attention and that of my peers. However, it soon became clear that I could not summarize her glorious and storied life in the space of a few square feet. Instead, I read Pauli's poetry and selected a piece that succinctly encapsulated the underlying philosophy of her work. The poem also speaks to Fire Island, a place where generations of people have found access to a higher state of consciousness via joy, in spite of the outside world's attempts to censor this enlightenment.

Artist - Tiffany Malakooti

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If you do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals to live the life you desire, It will be worth it. I promise! But if you find some excuse to justify quit- ting your journey, you will regret it. This is also a promise!
― Glenn Brandon Burke

Artist - Victor Jeffreys II.

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Equality means more than passing laws. The strug- gle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.
―Barbara Gittings

Artist - Wolfgang Tillmans

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Wolfgang Tillmans’s flag contribution honors the work of activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya. The flag shows a page of Kuromiya’s Critical Path AIDS Project publication with the words “Remembering Kiysoshi Kuromiya” printed on them. The simple layout and font is reminiscent of Tillmans’s ‘Truth Study Center’ and ‘Time Mirrored’ installations, in which Tillmans uses various print media to create a visual language that is also concerned with the (re-) distribution of information. Directly pointing towards Kuromiya’s groundbreaking work, Tillmans’s acknowledges the activists legacy in providing access to critical health information amongst the queer communities who’s lives have been severely affected by HIV and AIDS.