Category: Queer Community
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This Week’s Picks – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] India’s Museum of Art and Photography Will Confront Biases Bengaluru, India opened a major cultural institution this month, the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP). In addition to the pre-modern and contemporary art and photography within its 60,000-piece collection, the five-story institution showcases textiles, posters and craft in an effort to eschew the industry’s […]
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An Oral History of House Music – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] After Beyoncé’s Grammys speech thanking the queer community for creating house music, NPR’s Throughline gathered quotes and anecdotes from various conversations to create a kind of oral history of the genre which began in Chicago in the late 1970s and early ’80s, thanks to Black and mostly gay DJs. The article includes significant moments […]
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Gogo Boi (Face Down Ass Up) Vase – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Produced by CH favorite Pansy Ass Ceramics at their Toronto studio, the Gogo Boi (Face Down Ass Up) vase supports flowers at both ends of the glossy vessel. It’s a clever, queer decor addition that comes in a few different colorways—including one with 22k gold accents. Each vase measures approximately 16 by 8 by […]
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Halloween’s Intrinsic Connection to Queerness – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Throughout recent history—from the 1940s to the ’70s and ’80s—Halloween has been a vehicle for queer people to embrace who they are. Case in point: Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. In its first year in 1976, the parade drew 160 attendees who were predominately Black trans folk, drag queens and other people in the LGBTQ+ […]
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“Ice Cream” Skateboard – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] THERE Skateboards $65 Skateboarding is a culture traditionally rife with homophobia and exclusivity, but artist and activist Jeffrey Cheung and his partner Gabriel Ramirez are working to change that through their radical, queer skate collective UNITY and brand THERE Skateboards. From the store comes “Ice Cream,” a standard 8.25-inch board that fittingly features Cheung’s […]
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Study Discredits “Social Contagion” Among Trans Kids – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] As legislative efforts to strip trans people of life-affirming healthcare continue, bolstered by disinformation, researchers have found that the theory of “social contagion” causing gender dysphoria in trans kids is not credible. The study—led by Boston-based Fenway Institute—was published in the journal Pediatrics and disproves the concept of “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” (not a formal […]
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FANG’s Sensual Clothing Challenges Toxic Masculinity – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] There is nothing shy about FANG. Neither their high-cut underwear, pearl-strung swimwear nor their tank tops bound by chokers leave much room for coyness. Instead, the bold menswear brand is upfront about sensuality and femininity. The brand’s form-fitting silhouettes, subversive cutouts and asymmetric dresses expand men’s fashion and critically challenge conventional constructs of masculinity. […]
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OUT OF ORDER Magazine’s T-Shirt Collection Benefiting UKRAINEPRIDE – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] OUT OF ORDER magazine, founded in 2011 by Dorian Grinspan, has just launched an endeavor with the Kyiv-based grassroots organization UKRAINEPRIDE to benefit queer Ukranians impacted by the war. For the project, 11 artists designed T-shirts, available for purchase now through 4 July. The campaign will send proceeds to Ukranian people, and also create continued conversation […]
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Caroline Kingsbury’s Pride 2022 Playlist for COOL HUNTING – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] For our Pride playlist this year, LA-based queer indie-pop recording artist Caroline Kingsbury looked to a recent personal experience to inspire an energized, expressive and empowering track list around the self-selected theme “Chaotic Pride Breakup.” Kingsbury—who recently released a five-track EP, Remixes from Heaven, following her boldly textured and genre-spanning 2021 debut album, Heaven’s Just A Flight—chose […]
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Roaming Restaurant Gay4U Provides Free Meals to Trans People of Color – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Oakland-based Cellphone (founder of Hella Vegan Eats, creator of the queer-centered market GayMart and organizer of Trans Skate Parties) has been “queering the Bay Area culinary scene” for decades. An advocate and pioneer of LGBTQ+ issues and intentional celebrations, their latest venture is a roving vegan restaurant called Gay4U and is dedicated to serving […]
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Full of Pride Mugs – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Our Place $50 Minimal on the outside and colorful on the inside, Our Place’s Full of Pride Mugs pay tribute to chosen families. They designed by Viviana Matsuda, a queer Japanese-Mexican ceramicist, and they will lend financial support to the community, donating 20% of its profits to the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Food Pantry—which […]
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How NYC’s HAGS is “Queering” Fine Dining – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Despite the fact that no one knows what truly lies beyond its doors yet, the highly anticipated restaurant HAGS, from first-time restaurant co-founders Telly Justice and Camille Lindsley, has garnered almost immediate acclaim for being New York City’s first fine dining restaurant that focuses on and is founded by queer people—but the establishment achieves […]
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Artist RTiiiKA’s Queer Condoms for Gender-Free Genitals – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] At Bristol-based artist RTiiiKA’s recent exhibition, Between the Lines, the artist handed out queer condoms to accompany her work on display. The condoms came emblazoned with different labels like “FOR VERY BIG CLiTS,” “FOR DYKES WHO SLEEP WiTH DiCKS,” “FOR MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN” and more. The condoms and the exhibition sought to remove […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] 9,200 unknown tree species, a watery grave for the ISS, the UK’s first queer museum and more from around the web A Studio Residency For Formerly Incarcerated Artists at the World Trade Center This Spring, Silver Art Projects—a non-profit organization that supports overlooked artists—will open applications for its third round of year-long residencies, offering […]
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UK’s First LGBTQ+ Museum Will Open This Spring – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] After four years of planning and countless delays due to the pandemic, the UK’s first queer museum, called Queer Britain, is slated to open this spring. Occupying a historic space in King’s Cross owned by fundraising charity Art Fund, the museum will feature four galleries to showcase past, present and future queer stories as […]