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"Our Flag," 2014

To hear W. Jo Moser tell the story of her career in photography is like listening to a love story. Moser has been photographing the LGBTQ community for over 30 years, and on October 25 will be presenting a retrospective of her work — the digital retrospective exhibition Going the Distance: LGBTQ Life 1974 to 2015 — as part of “Querying the Past,” a series of works hosted by USM's Women and Gender Studies Program and the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine.

The Phoenix spoke with Moser by phone about her life documenting the LGBTQ civil rights movement and what to expect from the show.

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"Then: San Francisco 1," by W Jo Moser, 1983

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"Winning Marriage," 2012