Antique Pink

With Antique Pink, photographer/artist Ernst Coppejans reflects on the experiences of the first gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders and intersex people (*LGBTIs) who dared to openly embrace their sexual orientation. Thanks to the generation that brought about LGBTI-emancipation, the current LGBTIQA+ community enjoys a freedom that is anything but self-evident and that must be actively maintained. Coppejans depicts the personal, inspiring and sometimes shocking – but also especially beautiful and intimate stories of these elderly LGBTI-people who have Dutch and migration-related backgrounds. These personal portraits and stories will fuel the conversation between the older and younger generations, from Pride 2021 onwards. The series Antique Pink consists of thirty portraits and stories of 70+ year old LGBTI-people and is bundled and designed in collaboration with the Open Mind Foundation in a traveling multimedia exhibition, a magazine and an Antique Pink programme. Also the series is included in the Amsterdam City Archives because the stories belong to our cultural heritage.