The Sodomite Invasion Virtual Book Launch

Join The Sodomite Invasion virtual book launch with curator and author, Lorenzo Fusi, and Griffin Art Projects director, Lisa Baldissera, followed by a Q&A. The Sodomite Invasion: Experimentation, Politics and Sexuality in the work of Jimmy DeSana and Marlon T. Riggs documents an exhibition of the same name curated by Lorenzo Fusi within the Griffins’ Ethics of Care framework in 2020. Written during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the publication offers unique insight on the life and work of DeSana and Riggs and features original research and material as well as a long-form interview with Riggs, reprinted with permission. The publication also creates space to revisit the cultural, artistic and activist relations between Canada and the US at the apex of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and onward. Other contributors to the book include: Lyle Ashton Harris, Chuck Kleinhans, Julia Lesage, and Robert F. Reid–Pharr.