In 1985, two years before he bought his first camera, Tillmans started experimenting with music, which he probably would’ve pursued if it weren’t for fate.

Muri Assunção
Muri Assunção is a Brazilian-born, New York-based journalist who covers arts, culture, and the Latin universe through queer-tinted glasses. His work has appeared in VICE, Paste Magazine, INTO, MensJournal.com, Towleroad.com, among others. You can follow him @muriassuncao
An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears
The former meeting place of the Gay Liberation Front is slated for demolition — but a group of historian-activists is racing to document sites like it, before they disappear.
Brazilian Court Ends Censorship of Play About Transgender Jesus
The highest state court in São Paulo has cleared the way for a censored play to take the stage once again.
A Movie Remembers the Artist Who Made Fashion Illustration Fashionable Again
James Crump’s seductive new documentary delves into the fascinating, 1970s universe of the New York-based fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez.