The girls in 100% PURE HEROINE demand a new kind of female representation in history.
With the birth of gay liberation in 1969, we fearlessly took to the New York streets and broke taboos both politically and culturally. I photographed my friends and our unique style of posing and style. Androgyny became an idealized definition of gender. Sexual role playing tied into sexual politics. By the 80’s ‘Lesbian Chic’ had emerged as a style, blurring the differences between masculinity and femininity.
