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Late #Summer #Reading: #DHGutzman’s #LGBTQ #Thrillers, #Romance and #HistoricFiction Fit the Bill.

#Milwaukee’s own D.H. Gutzman: More familiarly known as #DaleGutzman, he has long been recognized as a local #theater #impresario.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://shepherdexpress.com/lgbtq/my-lgbtq-pov/late-summer-reading-dh-gutzmans-lgbtq-thrillers-romance/

#KirshaKaechele's #saga at #MONA involved creating a #LadiesLounge with #male #butlers serving #women, sparked a #genderdiscrimination #lawsuit.

So as a solution the lounge was later replaced by a #restroom with #fake #Picasso paintings, highlighting #patriarchal #absurdity and gaining #international #attention.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Hobart #Entertainment #TheArts #Feminism #Representation #Culture

https://theconversation.com/fake-picassos-in-a-ladies-toilet-why-the-saga-at-mona-is-one-of-the-most-effective-pieces-of-performance-art-ive-seen-234470

#JonathanGroff thought #comingout would make #fame '#impossible.'

Here's why he #cameout anyway. The #Broadway veteran thinks that "everyone that was #closeted at some point" can #relate to his latest #role in #MerrilyWeRollAlong.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Theatre #Representation #Culture

https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/jonathan-groff-coming-out-merrily

‘#BlackAFHistory: The Un-#whitewashed #Story of #America’ has #Houstonians talking.

But for those #folk, those who view the #American #story sold to K-thru-college #students for centuries as #divinelyordained #gospel #truth, #Harriot’s “#BlackAF” is the #boogeyman they imagine all #Blackfolk to be.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #BlackHistoryMonth #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

https://defendernetwork.com/news/black-af-history-michael-harriot/

[Audio] Three #Poets of the #HarlemRenaissance

An #anthology of over 250 #poems from the 1920s peak of the Harlem Renaissance. #Narrator #RonButler highlights #CounteeCullen's #classical #themes. #RobinMiles brings out the #warmth in #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson's work. #KevinKenerly conveys #LangstonHughes's unique #jazz #rhythms.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Poetry #Audiobooks #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon

https://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/234457/three-poets-of-the-harlem-renaissance-by-langston-hughes-georgia-douglas-johnson-countee-cullen-read-by-kevin-kenerly-robin-miles/

8 #Overlooked #Women #Old #Masters Who Were #AheadofTheirTime

#Contributions of #women #artists have been #overlooked or #forgotten in #art #history for #centuries.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Representation #Culture

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-overlooked-women-masters-ahead-time

#JohnSingerSargent's #portrait of #EnaWertheimer: The #painting that #challenged #sexualnorms.

The #article #discusses how #JohnSingerSargent, in his #circle of #friends and in his #art, #embraced #unconventional and #progressive #individuals, including those who #defied #traditional #gendernorms and #sexualorientations.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts
#Painting #Representation https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231121-john-singer-sargents-portrait-of-ena-wertheimer-the-painting-that-challenged-sexual-norms?ocid=global_culture_rss

#Tap Into #QueerRage This #Pride With These #Scorching #LGBTQ+ #books

#QueerRage is so necessary right now to build #coalitions around #anger, to embrace #wrath as a #politicaltool and way of moving through a #world becoming increasingly #hostile for the most #vulnerable parts of the #queer and #trans #community

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Literature #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture

https://www.autostraddle.com/tap-into-queer-rage-this-pride-with-these-scorching-lgbtq-books/