Queer Joy In Community: A Photo Essay on Loving the Diversity in Queerness

As a queer person, have you ever stopped to examine how our community reflects a quirky microcosm of what the United States could embody if it wasn’t foundationally rooted in hate?

Our original new Photo Essay by photographer and filmmaker Aryka Randall, ‘Queer Joy in Community‘, explores this reality while bringing the concept of Queer Joy to the forefront. In a community that’s occupied by every race, age, religion, and ethnic group of people in the world, the LGBTQ+ community has mastered the art of tolerance, community, and love.

To be clear, we don’t always get along with each other and we have our own issues to work on as a marginalized group but overall, we look out for each other when its needed and empathy is always the bottom line.

Queer Joy in Community is an ode to the diversity we experience as queer people in communal spaces where we can come together to be ourselves and share space.

Enjoy the essay and share with a friend who loves visual art. Big thank you again to everyone who came out to be a muse in this project!

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