Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer and archivist for the Estate of Anatole Pohorilenko and the Monroe Wheeler Archive. He teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design in New York City, and has authored two previous Daylight books, including Gays in the Military and Seasons Greetings. Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer focusing on art, photography, and cultural history. Her work has been published in books by Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, Martha Cooper, and Arlene Gottfried, as well as publications including The New Yorker, The Village Voice, i-D, Dazed, and AnOther. Nikita Shepard teaches, researches, and writes on LGBTQ communities and social movements in the modern United States. They received their PhD from Columbia University in 2025, work as Assistant Professor of History at Elon University in North Carolina, and serve on the board of directors of the LGBTQ+ History Association. Their dissertation, titled Embodied Politics: A Social Movement History of the Public Bathroom in the Modern United States, explores how toilets have served as sites and symbols of strugglesfor justice over the past century.
The End in Sight: NYC Pride 1985-1995