Gladys Bentley (1907 – 1960) Gladys Bentley was born on August 12, 1907. She was the eldest of 4 children born to a Trinidad born mother, Mary Mote (Bentley) and […]
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Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore April 4, 2005 – July 2005 The Judah L. Magnes Museum 2911 Russell Street Berkeley, CA 94705 Gallery Hours: Sun-Wed 11-4, Th 11-8 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
David Wojnarowicz by Felix Guattari Translation from: Rethinking Marxism, vol 3 #1, Spring 1990 (no original source nor translator given) David Wojnarowicz’s creative work stems from his whole life and […]
Gay Semiotics (Publication date:1977) Hal Fischer ‘s Gay Semiotics appeared in the late 1970s, first as an exhibition and subsequently as a book. Gay Semiotics broke new ground with its […]
Jerome Caja – Gallery The Three Disgraces, 1991, repainted1994 The Birdie Incinerator, 1990 Shroud of Curad, eye liner on band-aid, 1993 The Bathroom at My Place, mixed media, […]
National Queer Arts Festival 2000 Visual Arts Exhibition, SomArts, San Francisco ODYSSEY AND UNDERWORLD The Art of Jerome Caja, Charles Sexton, and Thomas Plagemann The three artists who have been […]