As part of Gay Pride Month Magnet is proud to present GAY GREATNESS, a multimedia presentation by Gregorio Luke, Saturday June 14th 7-9 PM at 4122 18th Street (Magnet). The performance will be an hour long with a Q&A session and reception afterwards. This event is FREE! Seating is limited so reserve your tickets through the Eventbrite link above.
GAY GREATNESS will celebrate the accomplishments of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals in art, history and culture. �...
As part of Gay Pride Month Magnet is proud to present GAY GREATNESS, a multimedia presentation by Gregorio Luke, Saturday June 14th 7-9 PM at 4122 18th Street (Magnet). The performance will be an hour long with a Q&A session and reception afterwards. This event is FREE! Seating is limited so reserve your tickets through the Eventbrite link above.
GAY GREATNESS will celebrate the accomplishments of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals in art, history and culture. “This is an incredible range of talent; from Socrates and Sappho, to Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman; from Tchaikovsky to Elton John.” said Luke.
While Gregorio Luke is widely known as an expert on Mexican and Latin American art and culture, this is a subject that he feels connected to in a personal manner. “My mother is the famous choreographer Gloria Contreras, director of the Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM. I grew up surrounded by designers and dancers, many of them gay, they were surrogate father figures for me.
Particularly painful was the devastating loss of life during the AIDS epidemic in the eighties and nineties. I saw people l loved, in the flower of their youth, age prematurely and die. This presentation is a tribute to those who did not make it and an inspiration for the LGBTQ youth of the future.”
Mr. Luke has presented over 1,000 lectures in museums and universities throughout Mexico, Europe and the United States in institutions such as the Library of Congress, The Smithsonian Institution, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, and Universities such as Harvard, Columbia, UNAM and Georgetown, among others.
This event is free to the public and underwritten by Lukes' good friend and Magnet volunteer Gary Keener. "I got the idea after one of Mr. Luke’s MURALS UNDER THE STARS shows at MoLAA, and challenged Gregorio to do something like that for our community” said Keener. Keener's idea was simple: celebrate LGBTQ pride in a similar way that Latinos and African-Americans celebrate their heritage while focusing on the accomplishments of distinguished members of the LGBTQ community as a way to stimulate education, respect and appreciation.
A free reception with drinks and light appetizers will immediately follow Gregorio's presentation.
Come out and help us celebrate Pride month by taking a stroll through LGBTQ history. It is going to be an amazing evening.