Nikki Aye

1 week ago | advocate.com | Nikki Aye

Get ready for a safe and fabulous LGBTQ+ travel experience The famed Castro District in San Francisco, CaliforniaJust in time for the spring and summer travel season, misterb&b has created the Queer Safety Index to aid LGBTQ+ travelers in selecting a fun and safe escape.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Donald Padgett |Nikki Aye

Get ready for a safe and fabulous LGBTQ+ travel experiencehakanyalicn/ShutterstockThe famed Castro District in San Francisco, CaliforniaJust in time for the spring and summer travel season, misterb&b has created the Queer Safety Index to aid LGBTQ+ travelers in selecting a fun and safe escape.

1 week ago | advocate.com | Nikki Aye

Self Portrait of Gustave Caillebotte, 1892 Grand Palais RMN Musée d'OrsayMartine Beck Coppola via Ignacio DarnaudeThe term “French Impressionism” conjures a hetero world of frilly images — from Degas’s dancers, to Monet’s women with parasols, to Renoir’s female bathers. This overly simplistic story has been upended and queered by the exhibition “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting Men,” currently at Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, and moving to the Art Institute of Chicago on June 29.

1 week ago | out.com | Nikki Aye |Daniel Reynolds

Claybourne Elder, as photographed by Ron Amato Claybourne Elder and Ron Amato Ron AmatoPhotographer Ron Amato had planned to shoot Claybourne Elder — a gay actor known forThe Gilded Age as well as his many theatrical roles, including Company on Broadway — as part of his Theater Folk portrait project. But the shoot expanded into a larger fashion series, which was then recorded by Amy C. Davies for the Provincetown Art Association & Museum.

2 weeks ago | out.com | Nikki Aye |Donald Padgett

All Boys Arent Blue by George M Johnson, Tricks by Ellen Hopkins, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Gender queer by Maia Kobabe, and The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonThe American Library Association just released its annual “State of America’s Libraries 2024” report detailing censorship attempts across the country, and the outlook is not bright under the current slew of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, laws, and executive orders.