Monumental Resistance: Stonewall

created by Lorenzo Triburgo and Sarah Van Dyck (Lolo & VanDy)

 Monumental Resistance: Stonewall is a performance, photography, and time-lapse video piece created during the 2018 NYC Pride Celebration. The video premiered in June 2019 for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

In 15-second increments, we created over 3,500 images between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday as I stood in place before the Stonewall National Monument, commonly regarded as the birthplace of the American LGBT Civil Rights Movement. With my visibly genderqueer body exposed to the waist, I stood as a tribute to the transgender people of color who catalyzed the Stonewall Uprising of 1969, yet have largely been excluded from the ensuing civil rights advances. This durational piece represents standing for something which has been hard won, fought for, died for, cherished. In community with the thousands of queer people who visited Stonewall during Pride, we experienced and shared the remembrance, joy, and hope needed to continue resisting governmental efforts to roll back Federal-level civil rights protections for transgender Americans.