News
Erasure of Rainbow Memorial for Pulse Shooting Victims Raises Alarm in Florida
State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith called the state’s reported paving over of the street crossing a “disgusting betrayal.”
LGBTQ+
Art Review
The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
The exhibition is diffuse with a sense of urgency to document this history against aggravated societal and governmental threats of erasure.
Art
Joshua Serafin’s Living Shrine to Gender Nonconformity
The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity.
Art
A Visit to Tulsa’s Center for Queer Prairie Studies
Slathered in bubblegum pink paint, the exhibition space is adorned with paintings and personal belongings of queer Prairie icons including Adah Robinson, Bruce Goff, and Lynn Riggs.
Film
Kokomo City’s Bawdy, Unflinching Feminist Message
D. Scott’s documentary on Black trans sex workers is as sunny as it is sobering, a film that refuses to moralize.
News
London's V&A Museum Criticized for Removing LGBTQ+ Materials
Advocates are asking the museum to reinstate two books aimed at LGBTQ+ youth and a poster that reads “Some people are Trans. Get over it!”
Art
The Body by Design: LGBTQ+ Chicanx Art
Dakota Noot presents an exhibition of works by LGBTQ+ Chicanx artists and offers insight into his curatorial process.
News
Florida Lawmakers Seek to Ban the Pride Flag
A new bill would also mandate that all public school classrooms display US and state flags.
News
The Artist Making T-Shirts Printed With Gay Men’s Blood
Zain Curtis's works protest anti-LGBTQ+ donation guidelines that date back to the 1980s AIDS crisis.
News
Alt-Right Protesters Brandish Nazi Flag at Florida Drag Event
Members of NatSoc Florida performed the Nazi salute and chanted “Heil Hitler” at a local LGBTQ+ charity’s fundraiser in Lakeland.
Art
Duncan Grant's Erotic Drawings Explore a Queer Utopia
A new exhibition presents recently discovered works by Grant in conversation with commissioned pieces by artists of today, including other LGBTQ+ creators.
News
The US Could Get Its First National LGBTQ+ History Museum
But the upcoming midterm elections could ultimately decide the fate of the fledgling museum.