In celebration of Pride, feminist female-run media company The Front joined forces with queer Brooklyn-based stylist Phil Gomez to create a series of 10 trading cards that pay tribute to historic LGBTQI trailblazers. Photographer Parker Day captured models through her signature campy, saturated lens, with subjects recreating notables, including bisexual painter Frida Khalo, political drag queen José Sarria and openly lesbian tennis player Billie Jean King. The Queerstory cards, which The Front printed as tangible trading cards, were handed out for free throughout NYC during this weekend's Pride parties and official parade. Keep clicking to see all 10:
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
Trans activist, AIDS activist, sex worker and drag queen who was among the first to fight back against police during the Stonewall Riots of 1969.
Model: Miss Pvssy
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
A symbol for love and desire between women, Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet who often wrote about her attraction toward other women. Hailing from the island of Lesbos, she bestowed upon us the word “lesbian.”
Model: Bettie Bathhouse
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
A bisexual entertainer and Civil Rights activist who was known for her boundary-pushing, sexually open performances that helped define the Art Deco age. She refused to perform to racially segregated audiences, and spoke next to Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington in 1963.
Model: Salima Allen
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
American artist who led the Pop Art movement starting in the late ‘50s through the ‘80s. His sexuality deeply influenced his work, which introduced the public to queer themes and gay culture on a large scale.
Model: Dorian Electra
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
American political activist and drag queen from San Francisco, California who, in 1961, became the first openly gay candidate for public office in the United States.
Model: Rudeness
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
First openly lesbian tennis player who pushed for equal prize money for women. She beat the No. 1 male tennis player in a match known as “The Battle of the Sexes” in 1973.
Model: HyperBody
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
Trans woman, and former Army private from The Bronx, who was the first to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery in the early 1950s.
Model: Luna Lovebad
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
Mexican painter and avowed bisexual who is regarded as an icon for the Chicanx, feminist and LGBTQ movements. She was married to famous muralist Diego Rivera, but had several relationships with women, including Josephine Baker.
Model: Marta BeatChu
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
Popular Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and dandy who paved the way for gay visibility in the arts. He was charged with sodomy and “gross indecency” in 1895 in a highly publicized trial that resulted in his imprisonment for two years.
Model: Mood Killer
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
A national heroine of France who, at 18, led the French army to victory over the English in the Hundred Years’ War. A year later, she was burned at the stake for cross-dressing in men’s body armor.
Model: Bebe Huxley
Photography: Parker Day
Art Director & Producer: Phil B. Gomez
Co-Producer: Dorian Electra
HMU: Ally McGillicuddy
Assistant Stylist: Mark Monroe
Graphic Design: Camilo Medina
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