OkEq presents "Transforming Hate – a Creative Process"

The January Oklahomans for Equality (OkEq) First Thursday reception will feature a special group exhibit titled Transforming Hate – a Creative Process. The show will compliment a traveling exhibit at Living Arts of Tulsa, called Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate in which 60 artists literally created art works from 4,000 volumes of white supremacist bibles and other books of hate speech.

Living Arts has invited OkEq as well as other organizations in Tulsa to participate in opening a community wide conversation, in the hope of discovering new and creative ways that we might transform hate and begin a healing process.

The exhibit at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center Gallery will of course have its own flavor. As we well know, bigotry is not limited to racism or anti-Semitism. In fact, under Oklahoma law, sexual orientation and gender identity are not a protected class, so there are no hate crime protections for victims of anti-gay or transgender violence.

The show begins with a reception on “First Thursday,” January 1 from 6-9pm; the show continues throughout the month at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center, 621 E. 4th Street in Downtown Tulsa.

For information, visit okeq.org or livingarts.org. To read more about this exhibit and see some of the work, go to speakingvolumes.net.

Founded by a dedicated group of volunteers in 1980, Oklahomans for Equality (OkEq) is Oklahoma’s oldest gay rights organization. OkEq works for social justice and full inclusion for Oklahoma’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) citizens and their allies.

The Gayly – December 29, 2014 @ 9:15am