"Encounters", September 2016

Containers:

Box 3, Folder 3

Scope and content:

"Encounters is a collection of photographs taken by Dean Sameshima between 1993*2001 throughout Los Angeles, California, at varying 'tearooms.' Tearooms are public spaces, mainly public restrooms where men meet for anonymous sex." Sameshima started documenting these spaces as a way of "recording an important part of his history and Los Angeles gay history...While working on his project, many of the tearooms were being policed, riaded, and eventually shut down."

Places:

Art.
Authority in art.
Protest and social movements
Pornography.
Lesbian and gay studies
Identity and solidarity
LGBTQ issues
Sexual attraction--Social aspects--United States.
Zines.

Access and use