Tee Corinne
Artist, Author, Activist, Teacher, and Independent Scholar According to Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia, Tee A. Corinne “is one of the most visible and accessible lesbian artists in […]
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Glen Ligon
Glenn Ligon is a conceptual artist who chooses to create work in black and white as a way of pointing directly at racial stereotypes and expectations; at the same time […]
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman (1942-1994) Biography from Baseline’s Encyclopedia of Film Born: January 31, 1942, Northwood, England Died: February 19, 1994, London, England Leading avant-garde British filmmaker whose visually opulent and stylistically […]
Harmony Hammond
Harmony Hammond is Guggenheim fellow and recipient of two NEAs, is an artist, art writer, and independent curator who lectures, writes, and publishes extensively on feminist and lesbian art, queer […]
Bill T. Jones
A Louder Public Voice September 23, 2001 By BILL T. JONES My company was to have performed at Evening Stars Onstage on the temporary stage set between the Twin Towers […]
David Cannon Dashiell
“In 1993 San Francisco artist David Cannon Dashiell took Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries frieze as a framework within which to explore queer sexuality, plugged and unplugged. Consisting of twenty-eight […]
Jewelle Gomez
LESBIAN SELF-WRITING: THE EMBODIMENT OF EXPERIENCE by Jewelle Gomez ZAMI, written by Audre Lorde in 1983, is by turns a formal, imposing, conversational and mythic book. It seems to grab […]
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) In 1993, in lieu of a standard biography/bibliography, Felix chose to write a portrait of himself. This is the Biography that we have chosen to print, which […]
Marlon T. Riggs
MARLON T. RIGGS Before his death in 1994, African-American filmmaker, educator and poet Marlon Riggs forged a position as one of the more controversial figures in the recent history of […]
Dorothy Allison
“I WEAR MY SKIN as thinly as I have to, armor myself only as much as seems absolutely necessary. I try to live naked in the world, unashamed even under […]