BlogSocial media
Boner Lisa? Dating app Grindr launches art section
InterviewLGBTQ
Art can help the public engage in personal advocacy: Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign
The nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organisation recently unveiled a mural by Hank Willis Thomas on its Washington, DC headquarters stating Black Trans Lives Matter
NewsControversies
Pace Gallery shuts down homophobic slurs on Instagram over Peter Hujar photographs
In Pride Month post, gallery speaks out against "individuals who wish to degrade marginalised communities"
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Pride and joy: Andrew Logan makes a rainbow heart for MindOut while Queer Frontiers fundraiser goes online
NewsRussia
Forty protestors detained for defending Russian activist facing prison for posting art with LGBTQ message
Russia's arts community rallying behind Yulia Tsvetkova whose trial starts in July
NewsCensorship
'I have a 1% chance of being acquitted': Russian activist faces six years in prison for posting vagina drawings online
Police say the body-positive images, accompanied by captions like ‘Real women have body fat and it’s normal,’ violate pornography laws
NewsCultural policy
Gonzalo Casals, director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, is named commissioner of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Official succeeds Tom Finkelpearl, who resigned amid scrutiny of city’s commissioning of public monuments
PreviewExhibitions
Rare Andy Warhol drag queen portraits go on show in Tate Modern exhibition
Near-forgotten series of striking portraits are part of a 100-strong show of works opening at the London museum this week
BlogDiary
'Unashamedly gay': Tom of Finland's bulging beefcake drawings are unveiled in London
NewsFilms
An art-fuelled, 18th-century lesbian love affair: French film Portrait of a Lady on Fire released in UK
Emblematic tale of a doomed relationship between a woman and her portraitist, lauded by international critics, goes on show this week
NewsHeritage
Hidden LGBTQ histories of London's royal palaces to come out in new guided tours
Immersive performances will begin this month at Tower of London, with more planned at Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace
NewsPalais de Tokyo
Artists criticise Palais de Tokyo partnership with Qatari museum over LGBTQ rights
Mathaf's guest show at Paris contemporary art centre marks Qatar-France 2020 Year of Culture
NewsPolitics
'No chance for art institutions': fears for freedom of speech as populist party set to win Polish elections
Expected victory for ruling Law and Justice party raises concerns that minority voices will be silenced as museums increasingly come under state control
NewsLGBTQ
Designs for the National Pulse Memorial & Museum are unveiled amid debate
While early reactions have been mostly positive, a group of activists and victims’ families would rather see a support centre on the site
NewsLGBTQ
Shanghai shows of queer art hampered by venue issues and government censorship
LGBTQ exhibitions and works that are explicitly out and proud are magnets for official ire in mainland China
ReviewThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
Celebrate Pride Month with commemorations of Stonewall's 50th anniversary
PreviewExhibitions
Aids, crack and Ronald Reagan: Keith Haring show heads to Liverpool
Tate Liverpool hosts the first major UK survey of the provocative Pop artist
BlogIn the frame
Rise up: new monument to honour Stonewall heroines Marsha and Sylvia
PreviewCostume Institute
Bold, ironic and camp: Met show explores exuberant expression in fashion
Costume Institute's new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion examines camp from the 17th century onwards
PreviewExhibitions
Out of time? London’s recent queer past comes under the spotlight at the Whitechapel Gallery
A new exhibition examines how the community has been affected by rapid development and gentrification in the UK capital
NewsBiennials & festivals
Authorities cancel activist youth festival in Russia's Far East
Officials raise concerns that the festival was promoting an LGBT agenda
NewsLGBTQ
Largest exhibition of LGBTQ art in Asia to open in November
The collaboration between Sunpride Foundation and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre explores issues of inclusion in ‘Asia’s Gay Capital’
PreviewArt Basel in Miami Beach 2018
Dealers take a stand against transphobia at Miami's fairs
Exhibitors at Art Basel in Miami Beach and beyond respond to comments by President Trump with a wide range of queer art
NewsCensorship
Artist accuses Florida officials of censoring his photographs of queer life
Organisers at Bal Harbour show asked Pacifico Silano to remove his images with partial nudity and descriptions referring to pornography
NewsExhibitions
New Museum hosts artists' proposed monuments to Stonewall uprising
In a range of models for Christopher Park, creators celebrate activists who they feel have been overlooked
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Making up with Paul Kindersley (and his mum): drag show opens at London's Hayward Gallery
NewsBrazil
Censored queer art show reopens to record-breaking crowds in Rio
The exhibition was revived thanks to one of the country’s biggest crowdfunding campaigns, which raised more than $250,000
News
US whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning to make first UK appearance at ICA London
The polarising ex-army leaker will discuss artificial intelligence, LGBTQ rights and the links between digital technology and democracy
BlogIn the frame
Hayward Gallery’s drag race—new exhibition in London tackles gender identity
NewsSocial issues
US Planned Parenthood campaign includes artists Shirin Neshat and Carrie Mae Weems
The Unstoppable initiative includes an online exhibition of works by ten female artists and writers
PreviewExhibitions
David Wojnarowicz’s furiously prolific but short-lived career explored in major show
As US culture wars reignite, the Whitney Museum stages a timely exhibition of New York’s finest firebrand
BlogIn the frame
Couples lock lips and make sweet music in Sydney
PreviewExhibitions
Just call me Gluck—the artist at the vanguard of gender fluidity
Brighton exhibition includes love letters and artist's final painting, a memento mori
NewsExhibitions
Coming out in America: Syrian artist Nabil Mousa brings LGBT issues to the fore in Michigan show
His depiction of the US flag is adorned with same-sex couples
NewsArchives
Paris to open an LGBT archive centre in 2020
Move spurred by recent success of 120 Beats per Minute film about Aids activism
FeaturePodcast
Podcast episode three: how the Getty is shaping southern California’s art scene
The story behind Pacific Standard Time in Los Angeles; Ming Wong on the historic queer art show in Taipei. Plus: an exclusive audio work by Zardulu the Mythmaker
NewsLGBTQ
First-ever museum show celebrating queer Asian art opens in Taiwan
Exhibition marks country's May ruling setting stage to legalise gay marriage
ArchiveExhibitions
Muholi defies stigma and stereotypes at the Stedelijk
Around 80 pictures spanning over a decade are on display in Amsterdam
ArchiveLGBTQ
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists warn against the appropriation of queer imagery by straight artists
As the "gay aesthetic" goes mainstream who should owns queer culture?
ArchiveLGBTQ
Emin slams Russia over gay rights
Moscow’s Ekaterina Cultural Foundation is set to host a retrospective of the Young British Artists
ArchiveAIDS
'Sexuality, Politics and Protest': The Frieze talk on activism after AIDS
Considering why artistic responses to the AIDS crisis are relevant today
ArchiveLGBTQ
Gay images censored after Vatican’s legal threat
Gonzalo Orquín received a letter from the Vicariate of Rome
Archive US politics
Married gay couples to get art tax breaks
Museums could benefit, as well as sponsors
ArchiveDiscrimination
Museums caught in the crossfire of discrimination in Russia
Conservative and anti-gay campaigns hit museums
ArchiveLGBTQ
Anti-gay law clash in Russia may impact Moscow International Biennale for Young Art
Young Russians' art may challenge St Petersburg hate legislation
ArchivePoland
Poland’s National Museum champions gay rights: critics up in arms
“Ars Homo Erotica” exhibition runs 11 June to 5 Septmber
ArchiveExhibitions
Smithsonian to host exhibition of gay art
Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery will host “Hide-Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” in October
ArchiveSecond World War
Israel builds first monument to LGBTQ holocaust victims
Work is expected to start next month
ArchiveBooks
Immortality, Roman style : Hadrian celebrated at the British Museum
Hadrian was a politically savvy, calculating, vicious, lion-hunting, married, gay general in the best tradition
ArchiveMarch 2008
Two new Holocaust memorials for Berlin
Parliament approves final budgets for monuments to homosexuals and Roma and Sinti people murdered by the Nazis
ArchiveCollectors
Best of British for Texas as private collectors put their art on display
Kenny Goss and George Michael set to open a gallery in Dallas
ArchiveFeatures
The films of Warhol’s lost lover rediscovered: A documentary on Danny Williams
Esther Robinson’s engrossing movie includes footage of several of Williams’ films
ArchiveNews
Film-maker claims Warhol sexuality cover up
Denying the artist’s homosexuality makes his work more saleable, she says
ArchivePablo Picasso
Contrary to expectation, these books provide new information about and expand our understanding of Picasso and his art
Was Picasso gay?
ArchiveUnilever
Unilever withdraws sponsorship fearing the brand would be presented as homophobic
Art or publicity stunt?
ArchiveLGBTQ
Queens in their castles: Photographic studies of gay men’s homes
Tom Atwood's new book reviewed
ArchiveWhat's on
From superpower to no power this week in New York
Silly season in New York brings mobsters out on the town, gay-makeovers for the men of America and 80s disco to Kenny Schacter’s new gallery
ArchiveSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum
LGBT photography collection grows at the Guggenheim
A large archive of George Platt Lynes photographs, including portraits, fashion shots and homo-erotic studies, joins the Mapplethorpe bequest
ArchiveGuido Reni
Books: Guido Reni, loved by the Victorians, despised by modernists and purists
Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay