Exhibition underlining LGBTQ Pride and Diversity Month at Red Dot Art Gallery
Artist Edward J. McCaughan
The prints in this folder (6 on linoleum and 4 on MDF) were inspired by photographs by the Mexican house of photography Casasola of gay prisoners in the Belén Prison in Mexico City in the 1930s. I tried to capture elements of pride and the spirit of resistance, as well as the degradation experienced by “las locas” (a vernacular expression used to refer to very feminine homosexual men) who were imprisoned simply for being.
-Edward J. McCaughan
Project Description:
Artworks of series Las Locas de Belén (The Crazy Ones at the Belen Jail, Mexico City)
Print #1
Print #4
Print #7
Print box cover
Print #2
Print #5
Print #8
Print #3
Print #6
Print #9
Edward J. McCaughan, professor emeritus of sociology at San Francisco State University, is a researcher, writer, and curator. He earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a master's degree in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. He is the author of several books, including three published in Mexico: Art and Social Movements: Cultural Policies in Mexico and Aztlán (UAM-Cuajimalpa, 2023), Reinventing the Revolution: the Renewal of Leftist Discourse in Cuba and Mexico (21st century, 1999), and Mexico-United States: Economic Relations and Class Struggle (with Peter Baird, Ediciones ERA, 1982). He has curated exhibitions at Galería Raza in San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca and the Manuel Álvarez Bravo Photographic Center in Oaxaca City.
