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TAKING BACK THE STREETS

97 images Created 18 Feb 2015

In the United States the streets serve as a tool for non violent protest and the application of the 1st Amendment. Over the past decade Syd has been documenting how the LGBTQ grassroots activists in New York City use the streets as part of their multi-prong approaches, fighting for basic human rights, access to housing, medical care and fighting against bullying, violence against queers, in particular trans women of color.
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  • Students organized action and vigil responding to Tyler Clementi's suicide. <br />
Washington Square Park, New York City. 10.03.2010<br />
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Photo by Syd London ©2010, all rights reserved.<br />
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Print edition of 5. First time this print is being made available for purchase.<br />
20" x 30"<br />
Signed C-Print, archival. <br />
$5500
    You Are Loved
  • Love & Shelter.<br />
A couple that met in the NYC Women's Shelter system snuggle during Queers for Economic Justice annual picnic in Prospect Park. <br />
Brooklyn NY, 2011<br />
Photo by Syd London ©2011, all rights reserved.
    Love & Shelter
  • Community organized in response to escalating street violence against the LGBTQIPOC community throughout the boroughs. <br />
New York City. 10.15.2010<br />
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Print edition of 20.<br />
20" x 30"<br />
Signed C-Print, archival.<br />
$575
    Love-In at Times Square
  • Vigil and march for Yvonne McNeil, a butch elder woman of color who was shot and killed by the NYPD.  Yvonne was shot directly in front of New Providence, the women's shelter in Manhattan where she resided.  Despite a promised inquiry by Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan D.A., Yvonne's family has yet to receive any answers about her death or her death certificate. <br />
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New York City, 11.18.2011
    Ghosts of Marches Past
  • Organizers from gather before the march and vigil for Yvonne McNeil, a butch woman of color living in the New Providence Women's Shelter, who was shot in the street by the NYPD directly in front of the shelter, witnessed by other women residing in the shelter.  Yvonne McNeil's family has yet to receive a death certificate or other basic information on her death, as of 2016. New York City, 2011.
    Organizers Gather for Yvonne McNeil
  • TDOA NYC (Trans Day of Action New York City) Targets Stonewall. Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project. New York City, NY, 2013.
    TDOA NYC 2013 Marching Outside Stonewall
  • Stonewall Rebellion Survivor, Storme DeLarverie Celebrating their 90'th Birthday.<br />
Henrietta Hudson's, New York City, 2010<br />
Photo by Syd London ©2010
    Celebrating Storme
  • ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) NYC's 25th Anniversary March. New York City, 2012.
    End A.I.D.S.
  • Annual NYC Dyke March. 5th Avenue, Manhattan. 6.23.2012
    Cops & Dykes
  • Annual NYC Dyke March. 5th Avenue, NYC.<br />
6.25.2011
    Betwixt + Between
  • "Where's the Love, Shah?" Protest calling for repeal of medicaid regulation denying transgender people and gender non conforming people the right to access health care.  New York Sate Dept of Health, Gov. Cuomo and Health Commissioner Nirav Shah  were the targets of the protest in downtown New York City organized by Trans Justice of Audre Lorde Project, Make the Road, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Women of Color Coalition & Trans Latinas. 2/14/14
    Where's the Love Shah?
  • A visibility night community march was organized to move through the West Village, following a series of street violence across the boroughs of NYC which received media coverage.  The march ended outside Stonewall Inn.<br />
10.09.2010
    Visibility March Against Street Violence
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  • Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project.  The Piers, NYC. 6/28/13 Photo by Syd London © 2013 www.sydlondon.com
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  • Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project.  The Piers, NYC. 6/28/13 Photo by Syd London © 2013 www.sydlondon.com
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  • Bryn Kelly's Memorial. B. Feb 7, 1980. D. Jan 13th, 2016.  St John the Divine, NYC 2/6/16. Photo by Syd London ©2016.
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  • Bryn Kelly's Memorial. B. Feb 7, 1980. D. Jan 13th, 2016.  St John the Divine, NYC 2/6/16. Photo by Syd London ©2016.
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  • May Day NYC. Contingents from the Audre Lorde Project, Streetwise and Safe, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, FIERCE and Queers for Economic Justice march with and for immigrant rights and worker's rights. Marching down 5th Ave, Manhattan. 5/1/2012
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  • Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project.  The Piers, NYC. 6/28/13 Photo by Syd London © 2013 www.sydlondon.com
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  • Elliot working security during the NYC Trans Day of Action, 2012. Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project 6/22/2012.
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  • Bryn Kelly's Memorial. B. Feb 7, 1980. D. Jan 13th, 2016.  St John the Divine, NYC 2/6/16. Photo by Syd London ©2016.
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  • Bryn Kelly's Memorial. B. Feb 7, 1980. D. Jan 13th, 2016.  St John the Divine, NYC 2/6/16. Photo by Syd London ©2016.
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  • Wreath throwing at sunset into Hudson River in memorium of those who died from AIDS and AIDS related diseases. June, 2009
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  • Organizers from gather before the march and vigil for Yvonne McNeil, a butch woman of color living in the New Providence Women's Shelter, who was shot in the street by the NYPD directly in front of the shelter, witnessed by other women residing in the shelter.  Yvonne McNeil's family has yet to receive a death certificate or other basic information on her death, as of 2016. Manhattan, 11/18/2011.
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  • "You Are Loved", a student organized glo-stick vigil for Tyler Clementi. Washington Square Park, NYC. 10.03.2010<br />
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Signed C-Print, archival. First time this print is being made available for purchase.<br />
8" x 10"<br />
$100
    Joined In Light
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  • 2nd Bed Stuy PRIDE. Egypt, a performer flirts with an audience member. Organized by the Audre Lorde Project. 8/26/2012
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  • Client: Audre Lorde Project.<br />
Assignment: 2nd Bed Stuy (Brooklyn) PRIDE, 2012
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  • Client: Sylvia Rivera Law Project<br />
Assignment: Photo document a Valentines Day 2014 protest, "Where's the Love Shah", advocating for transgender health needs to be included in NY State Medicaid health insurance coverage.
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  • Yalini Dream performing at the 2nd Annual Bed Stuy (Brooklyn) PRIDE. 8/26/2012
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  • Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project.  The Piers, NYC. 6/28/13 Photo by Syd London © 2013 www.sydlondon.com
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  • Elliot working security during the 2013 NYC Trans Day of Action. Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project.  The Piers, NYC. 6/28/13
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  • The first day of legalized same sex marriage in New York State. Before dawn couples began lining up, by the time the Manhattan Marriage Bureau opened the line of same sex couples (along with a few surprised tourists) waiting to get married wrapped around two blocks. Onlookers smile as they wait to cross the street. New York City, N.Y. 7/24/2011
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  • The first day of legalized same sex marriage in New York State. Just married same sex couples departed from Manhattan's Marriage Bureau throughout the morning. 7/24/2011
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  • Protest calling for repeal of medicaid regulation denying transgender people and gender non conforming people the right to access health care.  New York Sate Dept of Health, Gov. Cuomo and Health Commissioner Nirav Shah  were the targets of the protest in downtown New York City organized by Trans Justice of Audre Lorde Project, Make the Road, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, Trans Women of Color Coalition & Trans Latinas. 2/14/14. Photo by Syd London ©2014
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  • Imani Henry speaking at the NYC Trans Day of Action in 2011. Organized by the Trans Justice Project, part of the Audre Lorde Project. <br />
Manhattan. 6/24/2011
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