At ELAC’s Vincent Price Art Museum, an exhibition pays tribute to 30 years of Latina lesbian activism

Now through August, East Los Angeles College’s Vincent Price Art Museum will host an exhibition that spans three decades of local Latina lesbian activism, from the 1980s to the late 2000s.

Housed on the museum’s third floor, the exhibition features photos, posters, letters and other ephemera that highlight the work of those who fought to put an end to anti-gay hate crimes. The activists also took on other issues, including LGBTQ+ healthcare, affordable housing, fair wages for janitors and immigrants’ rights.

The show is a collaboration between the museum and the Latina Futures 2050 Lab, a research initiative led by UCLA. Jocelyne Sanchez is a project archivist at the university’s Chicano Studies Research Center library and co-curator of the exhibition. In a conversation with LAist, she reflected on what the show might mean for Angelenos, who are bearing witness to immigration detentions across the region.

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