Year One: The Struggle is Real will showcase Sean O’Connor’s visual explorations of contemporary homosexual themes from the gay male perspective. O’Connor came out in the early 2000s, a time when the social atmosphere for homosexuals in society drastically changed in an number of ways; from the American government slowly adapting laws protecting homosexuals and awarding them the same rights as heterosexuals, and simultaneously, how digital interaction between gay males, with apps like Grindr, radically shifting the way men meet and connect.