Interview
The Importance of Small-Town Queer Histories
Hyperallergic speaks with Walter Cooper, who wrote the book on queer history in Santa Fe, and Christian Waguespack, who curated the show on it.
LGBTQ history
Art
The Radical Queer Aesthetics of Gay Power
With the tagline of “New York’s first homosexual newspaper,” the publication integrated political news and local activism with erotic art and photography.
Art
Féral Benga, the Cabaret Dancer Who Redefined Black Masculinity
A double portrait of the dancer and Harlem Renaissance icon at Swann Galleries evokes his allure as an artist's model and his indelible imprint on modernism.
Art
The Sensual, Surreal, and Queer PaJaMa Collective
The collective staged erotically charged photographs of themselves and those in their artistic circles.
Books
The Erotic Nostalgia of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Published from the 1950s through 1970s, their covers are colorful, kitschy, and anachronistic.
News
American LGBTQ+ Museum Gets New Home in New-York Historical Society
This will be the city’s first museum dedicated to LGBTQ+ history and culture.
Opinion
The Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Choice to Drop “Gay and Lesbian” From Its Name Is a Great Loss
When did explicitly naming queerness become a bad thing, preventing people from feeling “welcome” at the museum?
Art
A Show About Stonewall's Legacy Falters on Inclusion
While impressive in its scope and engagement with the era’s tensions, Art After Stonewall fails to adequately represent the roles of people of color, trans folks, and folks with disabilities.
Art
A Night of Poetry to Honor the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall
“Riots in Writing,” co-presented by the Brooklyn Museum and PEN America, recalls the Stonewall Riots with a night of intergenerational poetry readings.
Test 2018 posts
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.
Interview
Two Transgender Artists on the Importance of Queering Home
Rahne Alexander and Jaimes Mayhew's installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art invites viewers to connect their own domestic lives to those of LGBTQ people.
News
England Gives “Pride of Place” to Historic LGBTQ Sites
Historic England's Pride of Place project aims to recognize overlooked sites of LGBTQ history and protect them as part of the country's heritage.