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Laura Aguilar describes herself as "a mostly self-taught photographer" whose artistic goal "is to create photographic images that compassionately render the human experience, revealed through the lives of individuals in the lesbian/gay and/or persons of color communities. Hopefully the universal elements in the work can be recognized by other individuals' communities and can initiate the viewer to new experiences about gays, lesbians, and people of color."
Gil Cuadros (1962-96), who was a friend of Aguilar's, began writing poems and stories after his lover's death from AIDS in 1987. Much of this work—verbally rich and emotionally powerful—is collected in his volume City of God (1994).
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