This weekend's Arts Project of Cherry Grove (APCG) Art Show, on view to the public on Saturday, August 22nd and Sunday, August 23rd, will feature photography by Steven Menendez. This year's reimagined event will take place inside the air conditioned Cherry Grove Community House with artists and artisans from the Grove, Fire Island communities, and New... Continue Reading →
Yabu Pushelberg’s “Don’t Stop. Stand Up!” exhibition with UNAIDS continues in NYC through July 18th
Open to the public now through July 18th, international creative design studio Yabu Pushelberg (founded by George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg) and UNAIDS' Don’t Stop. Stand Up! exhibition pairs archival and contemporary works that examine queer history across generations, from the sexual liberation movement of the 1960s and 70s in New York to the AIDS... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Charles Moriarty on his latest photography book BROCK – “it’s about chasing your dreams & finding your space in the world”
Featuring more than 110 stunning images taken over four years, photographer Charles Moriarty's latest book, the limited-edition BROCK, is an intimate portrait of actor and bodybuilder, Brock Yurich, as he chases his dreams over several years. The most recent photographs, shot earlier this year, follow Brock home to Los Angeles and onto the set of... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Sal Salandra wants his thread paintings to celebrate the joy of gay sex & encourage self-acceptance
80-year-old self-taught erotic artist Sal Salandra's vibrant needlepoint "thread paintings" pulsate with a playful carnal energy that unapologetically celebrates the bliss of gay sex in all its variety. Salandra's use of a medium that is typically associated with more neutral, traditionally domestic motifs to conjure kinetic scenes of fisting, orgies, and BDSM gives the work... Continue Reading →
Photographer Benjamin Fredrickson’s Wedgies – book launch & solo exhibition at CULTUREEDIT Los Angeles
Wedgies, published by Baron Books, documents the wedgie subculture through the lens of photographer Benjamin Fredrickson. This series showcases male subjects provocatively positioned and being given extreme or atomic wedgies (where underwear is pulled up above the subjects’ heads). To coincide with the publication of the photographer's first book, there will be a solo exhibition... Continue Reading →
Ashish launches intimate queer photography book with House of Voltaire “Looking for now”
Best known for his eponymous fashion label, designer Ashish Gupta has created a new limited-edition photographic book for House of Voltaire, Looking for now, the latest in their exclusive collaborations. Looking for now by Ashish. Courtesy of House of Voltaire. Featuring 64 original photographs printed in full colour, Looking for now is an intimate and... Continue Reading →
Two NYC galleries present Queer Love: Affection & Romance in Contemporary Art
Explorations of intimate queer relationships by 48 LGBTQIA+ artists are currently on show at a two-part New York exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx and La MaMa Galleria in Lower Manhattan. Queer Love: Affection & Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings, photographs, sculpture, video, and multimedia works that celebrate queer carnality, camaraderie,... Continue Reading →
Comic Review: Sins of the Black Flamingo by Andrew Wheeler & Travis Moore ★★★★
What if Catwoman was a South Beach twunk? That’s kinda the set up for the very sexy comic book miniseries Sins of the Black Flamingo that just wrapped its five-issue run with Image Comics. Lashings of occult mysteries mix with Miami heat to give us a sultry new “rainbow noir” tale. Sebastian Harlow is the... Continue Reading →
Exclusive Interview: Young Men in Love editors Joe Glass & Matt Miner “we want cool parents to buy this book for their queer kids”
Indie comic publishers A Wave Blue World's new queer comic romance anthology, Young Men in Love is drawing a lot of attention. This collection of 20 gay love stories spans genres, art styles, and relationships, with a top-tier collection of queer creative talents including Sina Grace, Josh Cornillon, Chris Shehan, Charles Pulliam-Moore, David Booher, Anthony... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Young Men in Love edited by Joe Glass & Matt Miner ★★★★
Get ready to say “awwwww” a lot as you read the new queer romance anthology Young Men in Love. These twenty comic stories range from sweet first loves to parables of adversity with everything from pirates, superheroes, sentient light bulbs and more thrown into the mix. Editors Joe Glass (writer of queer comic The Pride)... Continue Reading →
