The National Park Service removed references to trans and queer people from its website describing the historic 1969 uprising, including the “T” and “Q” in “LGBTQ+.”
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“Gay Halloween” Meme Enters the Queer Canon
From Chappell Roan references to hyper-specific camp and pop-culture moments, the phenomenon is a reprieve from the world of bunny ears and angel halos.
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Marval Rex Shares a Tale of Trans Jewish Self-Discovery
The artist’s newest performance, Rexodus: Out of the Closet, Into the Tribe, is “sort of a TED talk, but not a boring one,” Rex told Hyperallergic.
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The University of Michigan’s Gender Euphoria
A semester-long symposium offers a Gender Discard Party, a “lesbian feminist haunted house,” and other events to celebrate and cultivate queer community.
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A Monument to Trans and Nonbinary Life Graces Trafalgar Square
The prismatic artwork by Teresa Margolles includes plaster cast faces of 726 people from Mexico City, Ciudad Juárez, and London.
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It’s Time for a Queer Comedy Revolution
Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution drives home who is worth paying attention to if you want comedy to lighten your load, and your fellow humans’.
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NYC AIDS Memorial Celebrates David Wojnarowicz’s 70th Birthday
A remembrance event on Saturday night, September 14, will include readings and a candlelit procession to the LGBTQ Memorial at Hudson River Park.
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The Queer Artists Who Helped Shape the Southwest
Out West has no strict or static boundaries, no assumptions about or prescriptions for what 20th-century “queer art” in the region may have been.
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Celebrating the Legacy of “Old Lesbian” Advocate Arden Eversmeyer
A short film spotlights Eversmeyer’s “oral herstory project,” a collection of around 940 interviews with approximately 900 women.
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The Gay Abstract Expressionist Largely Lost to History
Lawrence Calcagno showed in nine Whitney biennials and was a lover to Beauford Delaney, but his legacy is yet to be fully explored.
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Trans Actress Candy Darling Gets the Biography She Deserves
Half a century after the Warhol film star’s death, writer and critic Cynthia Carr brings Darling’s life to light in an empathetic, well-researched new book.
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Trans Artist on Parole After 30 Years in Men’s Prison
While incarcerated, Jamie Diaz has made waves through her artworks depicting lived experiences and imagined realities.