Round Up Week of June 14- LGBTQ+ Photography Collectives and Initiatives
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries:
1) Authority Collective
© Authority Collective homepage
“The Authority Collective is a group of more than 200 womxn, non-binary
and genderexpansive people of color working in the photography, film and VR/AR industries.
Our mission is to empower marginalized artists with resources and community,
and to take action against systemic and individual abuses in the world of lens-based editorial, documentary and commercial visual work”
2) FREE THE WORK- CREATIVE RESOURCES FOR BIPOC QUEER AND TRANS CREATORS
© A closeup of Naima Green's "Pursuit," which is part of the exhibition "Brief and Drenching" at Fotografiska in New York through April 18, 2021.Megan Madden
“Free The Work is a curated talent-discovery platform for underrepresented creators.
In 2016, director Alma Har’el founded Free The Bid as a response to her own experience of the ad industry's hiring inequalities. The Free The Bid pledge prompted brands and their agencies to include at least one woman among the three directors bidding for every commercial job. These commitments led to measurable increases in the number of women creators considered and hired for major ads.
Now that our approach to fighting systemic bias has begun to see success in the advertising industry, we're setting our sights on more expansive horizons. More industries. More forms of storytelling. More creators from more underrepresented backgrounds. More data. More minds blown. Most of all, better work. Welcome to Free The Bid 2.0.—FREE THE WORK.”
© Human Rights Campaign- The LGBTQ Community and COVID-19
3) Human Rights Campaign- The LGBTQ Community and COVID-19
“As COVID-19 continues sweeping the world, hundreds of thousands of people have contracted the virus, and every community has been affected. The LGBTQ community in the U.S. — along with many communities around the globe — will face unique challenges due to its economic and health care situations.”
4) Queer Art
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“QUEER|ART is a non-profit arts organization serving a diverse and vibrant community of LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.
Our programs are organized under three major areas of support — PRACTICE (Creative and Professional Development), PRESENTS (Events, Exhibitions, and other Public Presentations), and AWARDS (Residencies, Grants, and Prizes). Each of these areas of support operate across four fields of creative practice: Film, Performance, Visual Art, and Literature.”
5) GLAAD
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“GLAAD rewrites the script for LGBTQ acceptance. As a dynamic media force, GLAAD tackles tough issues to shape the narrative and provoke dialogue that leads to cultural change. GLAAD protects all that has been accomplished and creates a world where everyone can live the life they love.”
©QCC homepage
6) Queer Cultural Center (QCC)
“Queer Cultural Center promotes social justice and the artistic and financial development of queer art and culture. We believe that community building is key to social change and that we can envision that through the arts.”
©seat up blog post- representation in the media of LGBTQ+
7) seat up- representation in the media of lgbtq+
Seat Up is a quality home entertainment seating business, that has written an in-depth blog post about LGBTQ+ representation in the media, including LGBTQ+ media resources, the history of media representation, and more.
In addition to the ethical reasons…
Many brands support the LGBT community, there are growth incentives as well. With 7% of the adult U.S. population identifying as LGBT, this minority group represents nearly $1 trillion in buying power.
54% of millennials say they’d choose LGBT-friendly brands over non-equality focused brands. (Pew Research 2019).
Read Human Rights Campaign Foundation resource on LGBTQ Marketing and Advertising to learn more.