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  • Eileen Gray : a queer Irish iconic architect and designer

    Eileen Gray : a queer Irish iconic architect and designer

      Eileen Gray was one of the greatest Irish architects and furniture designers ever, and also a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Her most famous work is the house known as E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.  She was also queer. Early on Gray used luxurious materials like exotic woods, ivory and furs.  In the mid-1920s, her pieces…

  • Idina Menzel remixes Dream Girl (from Cinderella)

    Idina Menzel remixes Dream Girl (from Cinderella)

      To say we do not care for Amazon Prime’s new movie adaption of Cinderella is rather an understatement.  However, we do LOVE this new video of Tony Award winner Idina Menzel singing a Nile Rogers remix of Dream Girl that Menzel wrote for the film. Idina Menzel stars as Vivian, the evil stepmother in this…

  • The Mental Body : an Exhibition  @The Corner at Whitman-Walker

    The Mental Body : an Exhibition @The Corner at Whitman-Walker

    The Mental Body July 23—October 31, 2021   The Corner at Whitman-Walker 1701 14TH ST NW WASHINGTON, DC 20009 The Mental Body Exhibition takes a new look at the kinship between mind and body. How do thoughts and feelings materialize in bodies? And how does our perception of corporeality affect the way we think about…

  • Greg Salvatori debut show : TOWERS OF HOPE

    Greg Salvatori debut show : TOWERS OF HOPE

      Provincetown, the little speck on the map at the end of Cape Cod, and one of the most gay-friendly towns around the globe is famous (and infamous) for many things.  Size Queens being one of them. (And art being another) Now we are not insinuating that local photographic artist Greg Salvatori is one of…