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For Pride Month, Disjecta is going gay.
The arts center located in the Kenton
neighborhood is hosting the exhibit Queer
Academy: Part One— The Men, a collection of
two-dimensional, mixed-media portraits by
Dal Ray Williams. The exhibit aims to rep
resent important figures in history, bringing
them back to the spotlight.
“An academy is an institution of higher
learning, research or honorary membership,”
Williams says of the show’s title. “Mine is an
honorary institution of queer history.”
Presented in the Flex Space, Disjecta
Contemporary Arts Center’s side gallery,
Queer Academy is a show dedicated to me
morializing LGBTQ_history. Each portrait
is a hybrid of painting and collage, combin
ing acrylic, fabric and paper on canvas. So
crates, Walt Whitman, Billy Bean and Pyotr
Tchaikovsky are a few of the men depicted.
The exhibit runs June 4-26.
Williams drew his inspiration from his
frustration about the recent surge in bully
ing and suicide in the LGBTQ_youth popu
lation. “About eight months ago, I woke up
for the third day and read about the bullying
and suicide of LGBTQ^kids and I said to
myself that I had to do something,” he ex
plains. “What could I do that would touch
these kids and make them feel okay about
who they are?”
The aim of Queer Academy is to show a
cross-section of cultural icons from varying
fields such as sports, academics and politics,
and present them in one cohesive community.
“Many of these youths can’t see a positive fu
ture for themselves, but we do,” says
Williams.
“If you read about [Harvey Milk],
his life was somewhat of a
patchwork. He was in the military,
an accountant, then a hippie, then
a shop owner and then an elected
official. There is patchwork to
symbolize this.”
-D A L RAY W ILLIAM S
No stranger to the Northwest, nor Dis
jecta, Williams has lived in Portland for 14
years, working in apparel design. He first
became involved with Disjecta as an artist
renting out a studio. Williams helped come
up with the idea for the Vestibule, an alter
native gallery space at Disjecta, and recently
joined the board there.
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