Opie's earlier portrait series include Portraits (1993 - 1997), from which the Whitney images were drawn, as well as Domestic (1995 - 1998) and In and Around Home (2004 - 2005), which document the domestic spheres of
lesbian families in cities across the U.S., as well as the artist's own family.
«So many of us have waited a lifetime for the day we could see full equality for all New York
families, now that day is finally
in sight,»
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the city's first openly lesbian speaker, said in a statem
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the
city's first openly lesbian speaker, said in a statem
city's first openly
lesbian speaker, said
in a statement.
10 One of the more famous works
in the growing field of gay sci - fi is Judith Katz's Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, about a woman who bolts from her overbearing Jewish
family to the mystical all -
lesbian city of New Chelm.