タンディ・ニュートンのインスタグラム(thandieandkay) - 10月17日 00時58分

Another side of Pittsburgh Hill. Three cross dressers in a bar, one in full evening dress with sequined bodice' taken in 1959, height of the 'American family values' era, by Charles 'Teenie' Harris. In its glory days of the 1930s through the early 1960s, Teenie Harris documented the Hill's every step, from its almost inconceivable cultural effusion to its inhabitants' everyday activities. Somewhere between the two lay the now-buried history of the Hill's teeming queer nightlife scene, centered on a network of clubs such as Little Paris, which commonly featured cross-dressing performers. The wonder of Harris's photographs, as always, lies in his thoroughness: From the Little Paris cross-dressers to nude men changing clothes in an unidentified backstage area, it's as though Harris were compelled to document every aspect of life. In doing so, he not only has helped rescue this history from obscurity, but validated it as the "real" Hill District history. Teenie Harris -- who died in 1998 -- has, arguably, invented through his output the Hill District's "Little Harlem" as we know it today. That he implicitly understood the queer club and nightlife scene as an important part of that culture speaks to a kind of everyday integration that seems foreign today.

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