queerculturalcenter.org The QCC Website is a virtual electronic multidisciplinary venue that provides public access to outstanding queer artists' work. The Website's programs commission, present and exhibit contemporary and historical queer art, engage artists, critics and audiences in its interpretation and assemble and maintain a permanent collection. The Website serves as a multipurpose virtual venue that promotes the development of queer art, artists and non-profit arts organizations, publicizes QCC's real-time and virtual programs, archives and interprets significant works and engages the community in the creation of new content. Webmaster, curator and senior designer: Rudy Lemcke

	FACE The inaugural exhibition for the Queer Cultural Center featured over 80 works of art by 50 San Francisco queer artists. Curated by Lenore Chinn and Rudy Lemcke.1998. We chose self-portraiture as the theme of Qcc's inaugural exhibition for many reasons. We wanted this first exhibition to represent who we are, what we can be, and what we can accomplish. We wanted a place to start; to begin a serious discourse on queer culture. A beginning that was not an absolute ideological position but a place that would be continually open to itself and its re-creation. A place that celebrated difference as its mode of being and justice as its practice. We wanted to present ourselves not as an abstraction ( a theoretical category, a political identity group or an economic brand) but as an array of unique individuals who share this "queerness". We gathered these artists together in hope of creating this place, this center. We decided to start with introductions. A look into each others eyes. We decided to call this first gesture FACE.

			Garden: San Francisco AIDS Memorial. Approved by the San Francsico Arts Commission and the City of San Francisco in 1988. This never realized project stands as an absent witness to the plans and dreams of thousands who lost their lives to AIDS.

	Immemorial was a performance/installation at the DeYoung Museum on December 1, 1992. Created by Rudy Lemcke for World AIDS Day. A Day Without Art was originally created as a way of bringing AIDS awareness to the art world. In its first manifestation museums and galleries were asked to close or darken rooms to remember artists who had died of AIDS and to bring awareness of how the global crisis of the AIDS epidemic had impacted the arts. By the next year many artists around the country started creating performances, exhibitions, events and unique works of art to address the issues of AIDS on this day. The silent memorials were turned into proactive events.

	Inside Out: Voices from Home San Francisco Art Institute June 1990. This exhibition, planned to coincide with the Sixth International AIDS Conference (San Francisco, California. 1990), and the AIDS Timeline (University Art Museum, U.C. Berkeley. 1989) were the first exhibitions of AIDS artwork to be presented by major art institutions on the West Coast. Unlike U.C. Berkeley's AIDS Timeline, Inside Out featured the work of Bay Area Artists and organizations. The theme "Voices from Home" reflected "the personal as the political" message of the exhibition and localized the discourse on AIDS. The Inside Out exhibition asked "How do we represent AIDS?" It included fine artists, political activists, as well as organizations that struggled with the representation of AIDS for divergent populations. From elegant paintings to stenciled placards and quilts, this multi-layered exhibition mirrored the complexity of issues surrounding the AIDS crisis in 1990.
	PROJECT ROOM (the project room was part of my old site from the 90s and is not longer active. My new work can be seen at rudylemcke.com