The Filipino-born artist takes a journey through primordial mud, chimeric worlds, and suppressed psychic demons to honor trans people as channels of divinity.
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A Visit to Tulsa’s Center for Queer Prairie Studies
Slathered in bubblegum pink paint, the exhibition space is adorned with paintings and personal belongings of queer Prairie icons including Adah Robinson, Bruce Goff, and Lynn Riggs.
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Kokomo City’s Bawdy, Unflinching Feminist Message
D. Scott’s documentary on Black trans sex workers is as sunny as it is sobering, a film that refuses to moralize.
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London’s V&A Museum Criticized for Removing LGBTQ+ Materials
Advocates are asking the museum to reinstate two books aimed at LGBTQ+ youth and a poster that reads “Some people are Trans. Get over it!”
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Duff Norris On an Expansive Definition of Manhood
“I deeply desire an understanding of manhood that includes tenderness and open-heartedness that is not in opposition to butchness,” said the Brooklyn-based artist.
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Tara Asgar Embraces Freedom in Sadness
The Bangladeshi artist, asylum seeker, and LGBTQ+ activist muses about trans queer survival and the unparalleled joy of taking walks near the ocean.
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Judy Giera on “Sublimating Her Trans Body Through Form”
The Brooklyn artist talks about her mixed-media artworks, love of Lisa Frank, and hopes for the future as LGBTQIA+ rights come under attack.
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The Body by Design: LGBTQ+ Chicanx Art
Dakota Noot presents an exhibition of works by LGBTQ+ Chicanx artists and offers insight into his curatorial process.
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Florida Lawmakers Seek to Ban the Pride Flag
A new bill would also mandate that all public school classrooms display US and state flags.
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The Artist Making T-Shirts Printed With Gay Men’s Blood
Zain Curtis’s works protest anti-LGBTQ+ donation guidelines that date back to the 1980s AIDS crisis.
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Alt-Right Protesters Brandish Nazi Flag at Florida Drag Event
Members of NatSoc Florida performed the Nazi salute and chanted “Heil Hitler” at a local LGBTQ+ charity’s fundraiser in Lakeland.
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Duncan Grant’s Erotic Drawings Explore a Queer Utopia
A new exhibition presents recently discovered works by Grant in conversation with commissioned pieces by artists of today, including other LGBTQ+ creators.