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Féral Benga, the Cabaret Dancer Who Redefined Black Masculinity

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia August 10, 2021August 12, 2021

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.

Posted inArt

The Sensual, Surreal, and Queer PaJaMa Collective

by Cassie Packard August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

The collective staged erotically charged photographs of themselves and those in their artistic circles.

Posted inBooks

The Erotic Nostalgia of Lesbian Pulp Fiction

by Sarah Rose Sharp August 4, 2021August 4, 2021

Published from the 1950s through 1970s, their covers are colorful, kitschy, and anachronistic.

Posted inNews

American LGBTQ+ Museum Gets New Home in New-York Historical Society

by Sarah Rose Sharp July 13, 2021July 13, 2021

This will be the city’s first museum dedicated to LGBTQ+ history and culture.

Posted inOpinion

The Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Choice to Drop “Gay and Lesbian” From Its Name Is a Great Loss

by Ksenia M. Soboleva November 13, 2019April 6, 2021

When did explicitly naming queerness become a bad thing, preventing people from feeling “welcome” at the museum?

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A Show About Stonewall’s Legacy Falters on Inclusion

Avatar photo by danilo machado June 6, 2019June 7, 2019

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.

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A Night of Poetry to Honor the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall

Avatar photo by Eric Vilas-Boas June 5, 2019June 5, 2019

“Riots in Writing,” co-presented by the Brooklyn Museum and PEN America, recalls the Stonewall Riots with a night of intergenerational poetry readings.

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An Urgent Effort to Document New York’s LGBTQ History Before It Disappears

by Muri Assunção April 5, 2018April 5, 2018

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.

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Two Transgender Artists on the Importance of Queering Home

Avatar photo by Cara Ober May 10, 2017May 11, 2017

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.

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England Gives “Pride of Place” to Historic LGBTQ Sites

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 29, 2016September 30, 2016

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.

Posted inIn Brief

President Obama Declares Stonewall Inn First National Monument to LGBTQ History

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 27, 2016June 28, 2016

Today the beige Stetson hats of the National Parks Service (NPS) will start appearing at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, as the site was declared a national monument on Friday.

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Gaily Forward! The US’s Only Museum of LGBTQ Art Is Doubling in Size

by Claire Voon September 17, 2015September 20, 2015

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art announced yesterday a major expansion of its current Soho space that will result in the near doubling of the young institution’s footprint.

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