LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Jes Fan’s Fascination With Bodily Fragments
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Zac Thompson the Genderfuck Drag Queen
LGBTQ Pride Month starts now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Are Getting a Permanent Monument in New York City
The world’s first permanent public artwork dedicated to transgender women will go to these pioneers of the gay liberation movement.
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How Stonewall Broke Through Barriers with Love and Resistance
A New York Public Library exhibition shows how so many people at the time of Stonewall — and after — have been able to live more wholly integrated lives.
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Berlin Memorial to Gay Victims of the Holocaust Vandalized for Second Time
Artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, who designed the monument over a decade ago, says, “The memorial can be repaired — it is far worse when the victim of violent homophobia is a human being.”
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Emerging LGBTQ Artists Find Hope Amid a Grim Political Landscape
The Queer Art Mentorship (QAM) annual exhibition, Here & Not Yet, comes at a critical moment for the LGBTQ community.
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After Almost 40 Years, Torch Song Still Lights the Way on Broadway
Until Harvey Fierstein changed the tenor of queer theatre in 1982 with the Broadway debut of his Torch Song Trilogy, gay figures in media typically came in three flavors: depressed, bitter, and suicidal.
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LGBTQ Tours Offer a New Way of Looking at an Old Museum
At the Victoria & Albert Museum, LGBTQ tours offer a queer history of the museum’s collections.
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Kenya Temporarily Lifts Ban on Film for Portraying Queer Romance
The director of Rafiki, Wanuri Kahiu, sued the Kenyan government to lift a national censorship that rendered the film ineligible for the Academy Award’s Best Foreign Language Film accolade.
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Queer Identity in the MeToo Movement: A Conversation with Emma Sulkowicz
Emma Sulkowicz stood up against rape culture three years before the Harvey Weinstein story broke, but most articles about “Mattress Performance” erased the artist’s queer identity. Why?
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When Famous Academics Would Rather Condemn #MeToo Than Support Queer Victims
The seeming inability of rigorously trained, highly educated professors to identify what should be an obvious example of abuse on the part of Avital Ronell signals a fatal flaw in academia.
