Gay Greatness

A Lecture by Gregorio Luke

GAY GREATNESS celebrates the accomplishments of Gay, Lesbian and Transgender individuals in art, history and culture, from Socrates and Sappho, to Oscar Wilde and Elton John. It is also about an unbelievable level of persecution and hatred. Gays have been burned at the stake, tortured, imprisoned, marginalized, and persecuted. 

This is also the story of the struggle of the Gay community to overcome oppression and prejudice, through talent and individual genius and in recent decades a powerful Civil Rights movement. Tom of Finland is is referenced in regards to the US government reclassifying Homosexuality as no longer a disease.

My mother is the famous choreographer Gloria Contreras, director of the Taller Coreográfico de la UNAM, I grew up surrounded by designers and dancers, many of them Gay, they were surrogate father figures for me. Particularly painful was the devastating loss of life during the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s. I saw people l loved, in the flower of their youth, age prematurely and die. This presentation is a tribute to those who did not make it and an inspiration for the Gay youth of the future. 

Gregorio Luke is an expert on Mexican and Latin American art and culture. He is the former Director of the Museum of Latin American Art, Consul of Cultural Affairs of Mexico in Los Angeles and the First Secretary of the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C. ​Mr. Luke has given over 1,000 lectures in museums and universities in Mexico, Europe and the United States.

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