Peter Hujar was born October 11, 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey. Hujar’s father abandoned his mother while she was still pregnant. Hujar lived on a farm with his Ukrainian grandparents until age twelve, when he moved to NYC to live with his mother and stepfather. He left that abusive household at sixteen and pursued his interest in photography. He became a fixture in the art world of 1970-80s lower Manhattan. He was active in the gay liberation movement and associated with numerous artists including David Wojnarowicz. He died from AIDS on November 25, 1987. Author Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles-based poet, served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of West Hollywood and is a longtime fan of Hujar’s work.
Mattazine Society
Mattazine Society is a Los Angeles-based queer zine collective created by Mark Timothy Hayward and Jose Tinoco. Cross generational and diverse in scope promoting old-school techniques and queer-core/punk rock aesthetics. Their zine series, “For the Love of…,” highlights queer personalities on the edge of mainstream culture. They have profiled personalities such as Dennis Cooper, Kristian Hoffman, Cookie Mueller and Julius Eastman. The name is a play on the Mattachine Society, an American gay rights organization founded in 1950.
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