OddFellows Salon
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The salon was a gathering place for a largely queer group of artists, poets, and writers from all over the Niagara region. OddFellows also had a number of honorary members from Europe and the United States.
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–Helen & Lily
Lily shot portraits of some of the local OddFellow members in the summer of 1927. She displayed these portraits as part of an exhibit with poet and fellow OddFellow david tin mouth.
Lily went on to shoot an additional 12 portraits of the local OddFellow community. She also shot honorary OddFellow members such as Ada ‘Bricktop’ Smith and Claude Cahun when they visited Niagara.
ATLANTA NIAGARA HIM HYMN by david tin mouth (OddFellow)
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—Lily
OddFellows participated in monthly meetings in the salon where they discussed their work and planned upcoming exhibitions. A number of collaborations resulted from these discussions.
Le chien de Helen Gyger (‘Gygy’)
“A queer amalgamation of dream and reality’
(Virginia Woolf, The New Biography).
