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The OutMuseum : the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum of its kind
The OutMuseum is the first LGBTQ+ arts and media virtual museum of its kind – available free to the public. Home to a combination of rotating and permanent exhibits centering themes, identities, and experiences which celebrate and commemorate the queer and trans communities we serve as an organization, the OutMuseum places the telling of…
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April Ashley : Vogue Model, restaurateur, style icon and trail-blazing transgender activist dies aged 86
The glamorous icon and trailblazing transgender activist April Ashley has died at age 86. She was a top Vogue model until she was cruelly outed by a British tabloid in 1961, and even though that damaged her modeling career, April still managed to lead the most exciting life packed to the gills. Boy George…
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Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962
On Valentine’s Day in 1956 ANDY WARHOL first exhibited his very graphic drawings at the Bodley Gallery on New York’s Upper East Side. Warhol been working on this series of elegant line drawings celebrating queer love – a style and subject that couldn’t be less fitting to the American audience of the day.…
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Jean-Marc Vallée : Academy Nominated Filmmaker and great queer ally, dies aged 58
The death was announced today of French-Canadian filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée aged just 58. Vallée was best known for the controversial AIDS film Dallas Buyers Club for which he received an Academy Award Nomination and which netted Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto, Best Actor Oscars. Plus the multi-award-winning star-studded TV series Big Little Lies which…
