Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection

Well my issue of The New Yorker Magazine came today and on the cover was my inspiration for Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection.

Newsweek went so far as to say Obama is “The First Gay President”.

In 2011 same-sex marriage became legal in New York and they lit up Niagara Falls  to celebrate the happy occasion of the first wedding.

This past week some celebrated. Some thought it was too much hype. And some were disappointed that it took so long for our President to have a formal opinion on the matter.

But whether you be lesbian, gay, straight, bi, transgender, queer or however you define yourself…may this Similar but Different help you to see the hope for equality and the freedom to choose that lies at the end of each rainbow.

Up first Ken Nordines’s Purple from his 1967 album Colors:

Bruce Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die. 1984.

Heyd Fontenot’s Dan Reclining. Oil on canvas 72 x 48 inches. 2007.

Michael Jones McKean’s The Rainbow at BEMIS Center for Contemporary Arts:

Donovan’s Colors, 1965:

Anselm Reyle’s Arise. 2004-2010.

Charles LeDray’s Come Together, 1995-1996.

Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s Two, 2010.

Jason Villegas’s Polo Pile. 2009. Clothing, logos, cardboard on canvas.

Ben Aqua’s Family Portrait, 2011.

I couldn’t do a rainbow post without Debbie Harry and Kermit the Frog singing The Rainbow Connection:

Because in the end it’s all about who you love…

So believe in the rainbow:

 

also by Margaret Meehan

• Yayoi Kusama: Princess of the Polka Dots - July 19th, 2012
• Seventeen Hundred Seeds: Cultivating Community As Art - June 2nd, 2012
• Mirror Mirror #7: HOMECOMING! Committee - May 14th, 2012
• Performance Here, There and on the Internets - April 28th, 2012
• Dallas Wrap Up: Live Large, Think Big. - April 16th, 2012