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The culminating piece of the exhibit is a 14th century German statue borrowed from the Cleveland Museum of Art, depicting Jesus and John the Baptist in the style of a married couple. The plaque describes how medieval viewers would have seen their relationship as a form of marriage “with Jesus in the role of the groom” and one that “stretched gender roles and sexual identities.”

The Met’s Cloisters Museum offers a delightedly queer-inclusive analysis of sexuality in the Middle Ages

By Michael Luongo

Nicole Titus at The Winter Show's Young Collectors Night at the Park Avenue Armory.

Young guns having some fun at The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory

By Nicholas Boston

A 1990 KG vogueing ball at Cafe de Paris.

London gallery revisits Black queer nightlife and a transatlantic culture pipeline

By Nicholas Boston

"Emolsa," from Lola Flash's "Unsung Fire Island" series.

Lola Flash’s ‘Believable’ inaugurates a new art collaboration and sees a New York future

By Nicholas Boston

"The Web: The Birth and Legacy of New York's First Asian Gay Bar" is on display at Gallery 456 until Dec. 5.

A bar of our own: Archival photographs revive legacy of NYC Asian gay bar The Web

By Nicholas Boston

A view of “The Gay Harlem Renaissance” at the New York Historical.

‘An embarrassment of riches’: ‘The Gay Harlem Renaissance’ opens at The New York Historical

By Nicholas Boston

"She Sells Sea Shells," an exhibition at Alice Austen House Museum in Staten, will run until February 21 of next year.

She Sells Sea Shells exhibit debuts at Staten Island’s Alice Austen House

By Iryna Shkurhan

“Legendary Looks: Preserving Our Legacy” runs until Sept. 4 at City Lore Gallery.

‘Legendary Looks’ exhibition series highlights untold legacy of House-Ballroom culture

By Nicholas Boston

"MENERGY: Gay Male Magazines of the 1940s-1980s" is on exhibit at the Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, through July 31.

‘Menergy’ exhibition brings 1940s-1980s gay magazines out of the closet

By Dashiell Allen

"Group on Petra, Lake Mahopac" (1888).

Daguerreotype, day trips, and devastation: the Met explores early US photography

By Nicholas Boston

From left to right: Jathan Martin, Dr. Roderick A. Ferguson, Cornelius Moore, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes.

‘Speaks to the moment we are in’: Panelists reexamine Marlon Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’ three decades later

By Nicholas Boston

James Baldwin works on his novel, "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," in 1965.

Brooklyn Public Library zooms in on James Baldwin’s decade in Istanbul

By Nicholas Boston

Portrait of Belle da Costa Greene, 1911, by the photographer Clarence H. White.

Morgan Library honors the dual life of inaugural director Belle da Costa Greene

By Nicholas Boston

"The Plural of He" runs until July 21 at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Group exhibition engages the past lives of Colin Robinson, late godfather of New York and Caribbean LGBTQ+ movements

By Nicholas Boston

New Yorkers love to dress in a wide range of costumes at the Village's annual Halloween Parade.

Spooky costumes take over Village Halloween Parade

By Donna Aceto

“A District Defined: Streets, Sex, and Survival” is on display through July 9.

Meatpacking District’s ‘Streets, Sex, and Survival’ recalls LGBTQ nightlife of ’80s and ’90s

By Andy Humm

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