ALIEN/ OUT & VULNERABLE

Photos from "Alien / Out &Vulnerable", a ritual performance at "PLANET QUEER: HAUNTED SPACESHIP" on Monday, Oct. 20 - featuring original music by Joseph Carrillo (www.josephcarrillo.com). A performance about the need for connection in a world where one can feel so alien, about being proud to be out and gay but still having to fight and deal with the constant challenges that being a queer individual in this contemporary world - even in the gay community. Photos by Jamez D. Palacido, Ian MacKinnon, Robert Patrick, and Matt Bianco.

The entrance of the Alien Buddha on his UFO

Moving through the audience with UFO

The veil was lifted to reveal me in chains

Dipping my fingers into the UFO I paint myself with shocking red...and then all the other colors of the rainbow