Film
Classic Films About Drag Pageants and Ball Culture Return to Theaters to Dazzle Again
The landmark queer documentaries The Queen and Paris is Burning have been restored and are back in theaters.
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Comics
The Realities of Being Trans in Hong Kong
A comic artist tells a story of trans lives in one of China's most important cities.
Art
Discussing the Realities and Risks of Transgender Visibility
On the occasion of the publication of Trap Door, the New Museum convened a panel to discuss the realities of transgender artists and cultural workers and their lives in the so-called mainstream.
Art
In ‘Transparent,’ the Dangers of Apathy in Weimar Germany’s Queer Culture
They’re on top of the world: partying, popular, queer kids with everything going for them. This is not 1960s San Francisco or 1980s New York or today’s internet communities: it’s 1933 in Weimar Berlin.
Performance
Singing the Struggles of Trans People in the American South
On the surface, the new musical Southern Comfort has all the trappings of a conventional family drama.
News
Artists Envision Justice for 2015 Trans Day of Resilience
On November 20, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR), communities all over the world will hold memorials for those who lost their lives in 2015 in acts of transphobic violence.
Art
An Archival and Artistic Exploration of Transgender Identity
Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics illustrates not just the multiplicity of transgender identities but the many forms of expression those identities take.
Art
A Photographer Documents the Highs and Lows of LGBTQ Life in South Africa
This past Sunday was both an auspicious and sobering time to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.
In Brief
In an Artist's Video Project, Getting to Know Trans and Intersex Activists
A project by artist Carlos Motta to interview and document the work of transgender and intersex activists recently went public, in the form of an online archive.
Art
Artists Battle Transphobia in Argentina
It's been two years since a legal battle was won, yet trans and non-binary people in Argentina remain vulnerable to different forms of violence.
Art
Looking Past Initial Judgments About Beauty and Femininity
At the brief question and answer period that followed the premiere of the new documentary TURNING, Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, spoke briefly about the difficulty of understanding what a work of art means, even to those involved in making it.