People At Parties
by Gracie Hadland
Photographer Reynaldo Rivera’s documentation of the Los Angeles party scene in the 1990s serves as artifact and aspiration—conditions writer Grace Hadland desires in her essay, “People At Parties.” Through Rivera's lens emerged atmospheric images of queer and Latinx subcultures that unfolded behind the stages of drag bars like Silverlake Lounge and Mugy’s, inspiring a yearning for the past amidst today’s lackluster digital landscape.