On June 21st, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib chose to invite the world in to the interior parts of his mind via Instagram, and told everyone he was gay. As I listened to Carl’s Instagram message, I smiled and thought, “This one feels different.” Carl talked about the …
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Joy Oladokun performs a selection of songs from her newly released album In Defense of My Own Happiness in the latest installment of In My Room. “I’m not currently in my room; I am in my studio — but I am in my house,” the Nashville singer-songwriter says. “I can’t …
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On the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting, President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass gun reform and announced that he will designate the club as a national memorial. “Five years ago today in Orlando in the middle of pride month, our nation suffered the deadliest attack affecting …
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In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing interest in photography as an equal among the arts. Once he was turned on to photography …
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