100% Pure
Heroine

The girls in 100% Pure Heroine and The Ladies Room demand a new kind of female representation in history. “With the birth of gay liberation in 1969, we fearlessly took to the New York streets and collectively joined together to break taboos both politically and culturally.  Questioning the mass cultural representation of feminine identity, I photographed my friends and our unique style of dress and posing.  Androgyny became an idealized definition of gender. Sexual role playing tied into sexual politics. By the 80’s Lesbian chic had emerged as a style, blurring the differences between masculinity and femininity.”