LGBAC photograph wins NEXT Magazine Pride Photo Contest!

Our own photographer, Marek Marcinkowski, has been selected as the winner of the second annual NEXT Magazine Pride Photo contest. The winning submission was his photo of the LGBAC Marching Band collapsed as zombies on the ground after the children's Halloween parade in Washington Square Park (pictured above). Marek competed against thousands of photos, many of which were submitted by professional photographers.

We are so proud of Marek, a skilled artist, who truly exemplifies the "Many Arts, One Heart" culture of the LGBAC. It means so much to us that a photo of our band, participating in a New York City based children's event without an LGBT agenda, exemplifies "the definition of Pride" as deemed by the esteemed judges. This truly captures our mission as an organization.

For information about the NEXT Magazine Pride photo contest, click "read more".

What does gay New York look like? That’s what Next Magazine is constantly attempting to capture. But who better to answer the question than the people who make up gay New York? In honor of Pride, they tasked their readers to submit their images of what gay life in this great city looks like. Photographers, both professional and amateur, submitted thousands of images to the second annual Pride Photo Contest, and with the help esteemed judges were able to narrow them down to the ten best. Marek was announced the winner at a reception and exhibit at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation gallery in SoHo.