{"id":90683,"date":"2026-01-19T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90683\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:10:10","slug":"william-way-shows-memorial-portraits-by-arleen-olshan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90683\/","title":{"rendered":"William Way shows memorial portraits by Arleen Olshan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Arleen Olshan has been involved with LGBTQ arts and activism in Philadelphia for more than 60 years. She was a founding member of the then-Gay Community Center of Philadelphia in 1973, now the William Way Center, and for 10 years she was the co-owner of Giovanni\u2019s Room, America\u2019s oldest gay bookstore. She later co-founded Mt. Airy Art Garage.\n<\/p>\n<p>Now 80 years old, she has seen many friends and colleagues pass away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI attended a lot of memorials. I also was very active in the community. So when somebody was written up, I wanted to save the paper on them, like in \u2018Au Courant\u2019 and different news media,\u201d Olshan said, referring to the now-defunct Philadelphia gay newspaper that ran from 1982 to 2000.\n  <\/p>\n<p>While flipping through a binder overstuffed with clippings, photos and memorial pamphlets, Olshan explained she wants to draw or paint a portrait of everyone inside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce I started this project, I knew that I had to put them all together so I could see what was possible,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are hundreds of people.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44729,69,71,70,34204,27284],"class_list":["post-90683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-art-exhibit","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-portrait","tag-william-way-lgbt-community-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}