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Review of the Exhibit, Queer Maximalism
By Mike Dressel
Spread out over two full gallery floors like synthetic blossoms, the exhibit was comprised of over eighty creations built for performance; the costumes displays queered the notion of what theatrical design can be, blending found materials and foundational concepts with a spirit of radical reinvention.
From the Ashes We Rise: Exposing American Censorship of Queer Literature
By Arend Richard
At a time when censorship threatens all, we must uplift independent queer authors to bring much-needed LGBTQ+ representation in young adult literature.
Step in to The Lesbian Bar Project
By Christina Schlesinger
These bars are not just bars, they are living entities with a heartbeat.
Andrii Kravchuk Discusses LGBTQ Activism in Ukraine
Andrii Kravchuk is a Ukrainian LGBTQ activist, one of the founders of the Nash Mir (Our World) Gay and Lesbian Centre, Ukraine’s leading LGBTQ advocacy center.
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New York City’s Rainbow of Legislators
By Adam Kocurek
This collection presents its interviewees as a mosaic—a group of unique individuals who, when viewed together, represent the diversity of the New York community.
Not In Your Hand
By Richard Schneider
Seems it’s been a while since the religious Right went into full freakout mode over a logo or ad campaign, but they pretty much lost their minds over a change in those multi-colored and commercially personified candies known as M&M’s. …
As Long as I’m Famous, A Movie Review
By Allen Ellenzweig
As Long As I’m Famous wishes to be an exposé of Broadway and Hollywood in the period after World War II; the narrative action mostly takes place in 1948. It focuses on a half-dozen overlapping relationships, but mostly zeroes in on the young Montgomery Clift …
We Were There: Now in Chicago
By Ignacio Darnaude
CHICAGO’S WRIGHTWOOD 659, a private institution focused on socially engaged art, is currently showing a landmark exhibition: The First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869–1930.
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Remembering Sylvia Molloy
By Andrea Weiss
Her playful humor, her barbed wit, her keen intellect, her iconoclastic spirit — these were just some of the things that made Sylvia so special. What I would give to sit in the garden with her once more.
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A Run For More : Film Review
By Laura Moreno
“Hello, new me. She’s now strong. She’s now confident. She is alive. She’s in love… I am here. I am her. I am transvisible.”
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