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It included JEB and others like her. At once pedagogical, political and practical — JEB typically paired her slide show with workshops — the show offered new ways of looking and of being seen. She never made photographs with gallery walls in mind. Speaking by phone from her home in Silver Spring, Maryland, JEB makes it clear that movement building has been the cornerstone of her career. JEB was inspired by two friends who were also mentors.

Pride and Progress View All. There's a memorable picture of Donna Gottschalk that is circulated in some corners of the internet. In the photo, taken by photojournalist Diana Davies at Christopher Street Liberation Day parade in New York America's first gay pride parade , she is blonde, short-haired, 20, and carrying a sign of her own design that reads "I am your worst fear I am your best fantasy. When this photo was taken, Gottschalk was just beginning her own photographic practice.