Join us for a conversation with internationally recognized multi-media artist Francisco Alvarado-Juárez about his latest book, Gay Liberation: New York City Pride Parades 1975-1976, featuring images from Francisco’s 2025 exhibition, Out of the Closets! Into the Street!: New York City Pride March 1975-1976, which was exhibited at the Hispanic Society in 2025 as the second installation for Arte en el Alto Manhattan. Featuring 18 photographs, this exhibition showcased the racial and ethnic diversity of the early Pride parades and revealed the nuanced bonds of kinship formed among marchers from disparate backgrounds.

The conversation will be moderated by New York Public Library Director of Collection Development and Global Studies, Jason Baumann,

Francisco Alvarado-Juárez is an internationally recognized multi-media New York-based artist originally from Honduras. With over 50 individual and 90 group exhibitions, his oeuvre spans painting, installation, mixed-media, and photography. Francisco’s artwork is represented in museum collections around the world including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico, and the Museo Pablo Serrano in Spain. Francisco has additionally won over 25 awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Monson Arts Center.

Jason Baumann is the Susan and Douglas Dillon Director for Collection Development and Global Studies. He also coordinates the Library’s LGBTQ+ Initiative, for which he has curated a number of exhibitions, including Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism and Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50. He is the editor of Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era and The Stonewall Reader. Baumann received his MLS from Queens College, his MFA in Creative Writing from City College, and his PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.