Icons and Trailblazers
As the lead singer of Queen, this iconic bisexual performer was known for his incredible vocal range and showmanship.
Who is Freddie Mercury?
This popular 90s sitcom featured its lead character, played by its openly lesbian star, coming out on network television in a 1997 episode titled "The Puppy Episode."
Who/What is Ellen?
This award-winning musical, set in New York City's East Village, follows a group of young artists struggling with love, loss, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
What is Rent?
This Cuban-American artist's most famous works include piles of brightly wrapped candies and stacks of posters, which viewers are invited to take, representing the diminishing body and memory of his partner, Ross, who died of AIDS.
Who is Félix González-Torres?
This American Pop Artist, whose studio was The Factory, is known for his colorful screen prints of cultural icons like Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Andy Warhol?
This groundbreaking TV drama, starring an ensemble of trans women and gay men, focused on the Black and Latinx ballroom culture in 1980s and 90s New York City.
What is pose?
This American poet and lesbian feminist famously wrote, "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house," and focused on the importance of intersectionality.
will never dismantle the master's house," and focused on the importance of intersectionality.Who is Audre Lorde?
This artist's signature visual language included figures like the "radiant baby" and barking dogs, often incorporating his gay activism into his NYC street art.
Who is Keith Haring?
Known as the "Mother of the Blues," this openly bisexual artist was a pioneering recording star in the early 20th century.
Who is Ma Rainey?
This 2016 film, directed by Barry Jenkins, was the first LGBTQ-related film and the first with an all-Black cast to win the Oscar for Best Picture.
What is Moonlight?
This Black gay writer is known for novels like Giovanni's Room and powerful essays like The Fire Next Time.
Who is James Baldwin?
This photographer's controversial black and white images, including portraits of the NYC BDSM scene and celebrities, challenged notions of gender and sexuality.
Who is Robert Mapplethorpe?
This Irish playwright, poet, and definitive queer man of the 19th century wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
This 1994 Australian film follows two drag queens and a transgender woman as they journey across the desert to a drag pageant in Alice Springs.
What is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert?
This two-part epic play by Tony Kushner, set in the 1980s during the AIDS crisis, won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993.
What is Angels in America?
This contemporary African-American artist is known for her large, complex paintings, collages, and photographs that use rhinestones and glitter to explore black femininity and sexuality.
Who is Mickalene Thomas?
This bisexual Mexican painter often used self-portraits to explore identity, gender, and post-colonial issues.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This 2017 romantic drama film, based on the novel by André Aciman, tells the story of a summer romance between a teenager and an older man in Italy in 1983.
What is Call Me By Your Name?
The Tales of the City series, about the interconnected lives of residents in a San Francisco boarding house, was written by this gay author.
Who is Armistead Maupin?
This contemporary photographer is known for her portraits of marginalized communities, including her work on queer subcultures and her famous image, Self-Portrait/Nursing.
Who is Catherine Opie?