LGBT Blacks Exhibited in Photos

In celebration of Unity Month (September), WE ARE HERE: African-American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Images,â„¢ an exhibit of photographs by Richard Lee Gray, is on exhibit at Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N. Lincoln, announced Clarence N. Wood, chairman of the Chicago Commission on Human Relations.

WE ARE HERE will be displayed until Fri., Sept. 28. A reception to celebrate the exhibit was held on Tues., Sept. 11, in the library’s auditorium. The exhibit is free and open to the public.

In addition, there was ‘WE ARE HERE: Spiritual Connections’—stories and dialogue with Black same-gender-loving ministers—the following night, Sept. 12, in the library’s meeting room.

Questions about the exhibit should be addressed to We_Are_Here_Chicago@yahoo.com. The ‘We Are Here’ Web site is www.geocities.com/We_Are_Here_Chicago.

Photo of the Rev. Juan Reed by Suzanne Kraus. Photos of Gray’s images taken in 2006 by Andrew Davis.