Trapped and Tortured: The Sylvia Likens Story

Step inside artist Agosto Machado's living archive of queer New York City luminaries. From the counterculture of the 1960s to today, Machado has carried the legacies of New Yorkers, gathering newspaper clippings, photographs, posters and ashes in shopping bags of saved history. From these, he memorializes friends and icons like Candy Darling, Jack Smith, Ellen Stewart, Sylvia Rivera, and Marsha P. Johnson, community members lost too soon. His work is a tribute to community, chosen family, and th