Tag: queer art

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Emmys 2024 FYC Exclusive Interview: Taylor Mac on his 24-Decade History of Popular Music “so much of queer culture has been erased – I wanted to make something so big it couldn’t be ignored”

In 2016, Taylor Mac performed a one-time-only, 24-hour immersive theatrical experience in front of a live audience at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. The concert offered an alternative take on U.S. history, narrated through music that was popular from the nation’s founding to the present, with Mac transforming hourly by changing into elaborate, decade-specific costumes... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: wedgie photographer Benjamin Fredrickson “it’s about creating this fantasy where it could be anybody – there’s something really sexy about that to me”

Brooklyn-based photographer Benjamin Fredrickson expands upon the tradition of portraiture created with analog film cameras by documenting the queer fetish communities that he is a part of. His work—which has been published in BUTT Magazine, Dazed, i-D, Interview, and The New Yorker—powerfully contributes to conversations around breaking down stigmas attached to HIV, sex work, and... Continue Reading →

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Exclusive Interview: Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s curator Ariel Goldberg “it’s about coming together to insist on preserving & activating trans & queer histories”

As we face an onslaught of regressive legislative attacks on LGBTQIA+ life, focused on trans rights, along with reproductive, and voting rights, book bans and restrictions on school curriculums, it can be empowering to look back at the organizing and methods of grassroots trans and queer resistance in previous decades. That was part of the... Continue Reading →

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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 →

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