Take a sneak peek at some of the 60 "Gay Icons" celebrated from now through October 18 at the National Portrait Gallery in London, including k.d. lang, Virginia Woolf, and Quentin Crisp.
July 24, 2009

If a picture is really worth a thousand words, the New York Public Library’s powerful exhibit, "1969: The Year of Gay Liberation," is the essence of our history as LGBT Americans, condensed into indelible words and images.
June 16, 2009
By Michael Rowe

Out.com has published a collection of photos titled Mementi Mori, a body of work that features locations where biological men, sometimes boys, were murdered because they were gay or transgender.
June 12, 2009

His paintings might resemble portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds or Thomas Gainsborough, but little else is traditional about Kehinde Wiley’s approach to urban male culture.
May 6, 2009
By David Keeps

As the California supreme court gears up to announce its ruling on the validity of Prop. 8 on Tuesday, this collection of love stories from UCLA Art | Global Health Center gets at the heart of the fight for marriage equality.
March 4, 2009

While Fairey remains obsessed with subversive propaganda, his work is now less oblique -- his Obama posters were the defining image of the 2008 election.
January 5, 2009
By Jessica Hundley

Did Prop. 8 backlash cause art censorship -- or its reversal -- at Brigham Young University? Could be, as BYU photography student J. Michael Wiltbank found when his contribution to a two-week-long art exhibition -- eight pairs of benign portraits, each depicting an LGBT-identified BYU student alongside a supportive friend -- had been removed.
December 23, 2008
By Lawrence Ferber

A new exhibit at the San Francisco Public Library gathers the stories of pioneering LGBT people who disguised their gender and legally married the ones they loved.
December 4, 2008
Regina Marler

His brilliant theater defies explanation—yet it’s all based on his life. How did a gay kid from Texas become the high priest of the avant-garde?
January 29, 2007
By David Ehrenstein