Activism and Advocacy
New Book Showcases the AIDS "Day without Art" Initiative
Visual AIDS Collective reports that a forthcoming book will look at the "Day without Art" Initiative, which since 1989...
You may have seen on the television news channels recently that celebrated queen of the polka dot, the Japanese eccentric and artist Yayoi Kusama had passed on to the realm of the Japanese ancestors. But as LGBTQ Nation magazine reports, she was an ally to LGBTQIA people a long, long time ago - showing solidarity even before the 1960 Stonewall Riots kick started the modern gay movement.
The LGBTQ Nation website says "Kusama, who passed away on August 14, officiated the November 25, 1968 event, styling herself as the “High Priestess of Polka Dots” at her Church of Self-Obliteration in Lower Manhattan, according to Smithsonian magazine. For the ceremony, she designed a two-person “orgy” wedding gown meant to be worn by the grooms, and she used a phone book instead of a Bible."
Follow the full story of Kusama and LGBTQIA people at the LGBTQ Nation website here: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/09/heres-the-wild-forgotten-story-behind-new-yorks-first-public-gay-marriage-ceremony/
LGBTQIA Election watchers and politicians have broadly welcomed the result of the Holborn and St Pancras By Election, which was triggered by the standing down of former Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer. Parties traditionally supportive of LGBTQI...
Visual AIDS Collective reports that a forthcoming book will look at the "Day without Art" Initiative, which since 1989...
One of the first out gay singers of the groundbreaking 1980's, Andy Bell of Erasure has been talking to both Channel...
