When did explicitly naming queerness become a bad thing, preventing people from feeling “welcome” at the museum?
Tag: LGBTQ history
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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President Obama Declares Stonewall Inn First National Monument to LGBTQ History
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
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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Museum of Modern Art Acquires Iconic Rainbow Flag
The Rainbow Flag that artist Gilbert Baker created in San Francisco in 1978, and which has since become the icon of the Gay and LGBT Pride movements, has just been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for its design collection.
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Preserving the Lifework of a Cross-Dressing Queer Legend
Earlier this year, as part of the Whitney Biennial, I had my Tarot cards read by Flawless Sabrina.