Queer

Founded in 2009, the app sparked a revolution in sex, dating and the social dynamics of the LGBTQ community

In the Dream House grapples with the ‘bad PR’ of an abusive queer relationship

Yevgeniy Fiks’s photographs, both elegiac and irreverent, challenge an idealized Russian heterosexuality

‘Queer Spaces’ at Whitechapel Gallery documents the disappearance of many of London’s LGBTQ+ venues

The late artist rejected state censorship while presaging our image-saturated age

The artist’s witty, immersive retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario broaches basketball, Indigenous culture and gay desire 

In further news: Tania Bruguera to launch investigative journalism initiative; Smithsonian won’t remove Sackler name

The video for Swift’s LGBTQ+ anthem is erected on the stereotype of the redneck homophobe

Vital indigenous perspectives are highlighted in an exhibition of art and activism at the Oakland Museum, which spans the state’s colonial past to the present

On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the shows to see around the city that contend with LGBT culture and political history

Remembering a poet who helped define a generation of American writers through his love of gossip, sex and art 

On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, we should take up the call of the women who fought on the front lines of the LGBTQ rights revolution

Ahead of this year’s parliamentary elections, recent cases of censorship and aggression suggest a worrying trend

50 years on from Stonewall, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be memorialized in Greenwich Village

Twenty years since the original series, there is still much to be done in confronting regressive prejudices against the LGBTQ+ community

The US Second Lady has agreed to teach art at a Christian school in Virginia that bans LGBTQ+ students, teachers and parents

A private show in Stuttgart to neo-Nazi demos in Berlin, queer lessons in times of change

An open letter to Greek authorities said that the killing of Zak Kostopoulos ‘bears strong resemblance to lynching’

In further news: MoMA reaches contract agreement with staff; man hospitalized after falling into Anish Kapoor installation

There are perils in deploying bigotry to score political points, but meanings also shift from West to East