QueerArt

Sharing some of my favourite pieces of lgbtq+ art 🌈 (all artwork is © to their owners)

[QueerArt @art_queer]

'I wish I could tell my younger self that the challenges one faces after coming out as transgender are minuscule compared to the pure bliss that explodes once you are able to live as yourself.'

Lines of Dysphoria
@chellamanart photographed by @goldenpolaroid
#queerart #Pride

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Photographs of LGBT Russians

Forbidden Identities
Leonidas Toubanos, 2014
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

This photo of Sylvia Rivera was the first portrait of an openly trans American to be hung in the Smithsonian

Photo of transgener activist Sylvia Rivera (between with Christina Hayworth and Julia Murray), taken before NYC Pride
Luis Carle, 2000
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

These portraits aim to 'deconstruct the rigid, often limiting representation of the nude body in search of a more diverse, fluid identity'

Z
Rowan Renee, 2016
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

The Omega Experience
Benny Antoniw, 2016
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

'For this project, I am looking for people in history with whom I can personally identify... Each painting is a new challenge and different journey into history.'

Butch Heroes
Ria Brodell, 2010-
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

PISSED is a glass cube of 200 gallons of urine from by the artist, saved since Donald Trump rescinded the executive order allowing transgender students to use the bathroom matching their chosen gender identities on 22/02/2017

PISSED
@CASSILSArtist, 2017
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Untitled (One day this kid . . .)
David Wojnarowicz, 1990
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Drawings by the anonymous artist, @ArtQuuerHabibi
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Transportraits
@lorenzotriburgo, 2015
#queerart #Pride

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Delhi: Communities of Belonging
@sunilgupta_m and Charan Singh, 2016
#queerart #Pride

[QueerArt @art_queer]

'someone will remember us
I say
even in another time'

Vase depicting Sappho
Unknown, 450 BC
#queerart #Pride

[QueerArt @art_queer]

'“Selective Perception” explores how differently people are perceived depending on partner standing next to them. In each pair of photographs, one of the couples is real another one is staged. In some cases, both couples were real at some point in their lives.'
@lana_yanovska

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Space Fruit, date unknown; The Beatles, 1980; Self-Portrait, 1976–86; Muhammad Ali, 1978
Andy Warhol
#queerart #Pride

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Andy Warhol Sex Parts series, 1978
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Eric*
Jasper Groen, 2017
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Portraits of David Hockney
@msharkeystudio, 2010
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

Sonnet 18, one of the 126 poems addressed to a man known as 'Fair Youth'
William Shakespeare, 1609
#queerart #ShakespeareSunday

[QueerArt @art_queer]

The Kids: Children of LGBTQ Parents
@gab, 2010-17
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

'...the figure’s breasts are rendered as crudely cast Gatorade bottles. ... Built with industrial materials 'She Was Warned' is both figurative and architectural, a shell of her former self, nearly depleted.'

She Was Warned
AK Burns, 2017
#queerart

[QueerArt @art_queer]

'And so she drifted along, sometimes a writer, sometimes muse, sometimes archeologist. Sometimes boy, sometimes girl.'
The Cruel Way, Ella Malliart, 1947

Describing the photographer and journalist, Annemarie Schwarzenbach
#queerart #Pride