Artist: Zoe Leonard

Super-8 black-and-white silent film, 4:00 min

In East River Park (1991), Zoe Leonard and Nancy Brooks Brody document a site deeply embedded in New York’s queer history: the shoreline of the East River as a space of encounter, desire, and community. Created at a time when the impact of the AIDS crisis had already become profoundly inscribed in the lives of the city’s LGBTQ+ community, the work stands today as a reminder of how closely questions of visibility, public space, and social belonging remain intertwined.