This broadsheet, developed as is part biographical essay part personal narrative, aims at weaving together the life of Henry Gerber, the founder of the first gay rights organization in the United States, with that of the artist, in an effort to fill in the gaps missing from Gerber’s own history.

In his attempt to honor someone whose life he can’t fully grasp, Sorese offers up his own: his personal biases as a gay man, the fear of losing one’s livelihood due to unforeseen circumstances, the struggle to comprehend how short and fraught lives are.

Printed as a broadsheet not dissimilar from Gerber’s own short-lived newsletter Friendship and Freedom, of which no copies still exist, Henry Gerber is Sorese's attempt to pay tribute to a figure otherwise lost to history in the hope that someone may, one day, do the same for him.

Author: Jeremy Sorese
Publisher: self-published
Pages: 12pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Notes: folded broadsheet, b/w
Release Date: October 2020