Sin título

The boy of my dreams, ca. 1960 - by Ángel Rojo Gutiérrez (1931 - 2024), Spanish

Saul Leiter, 1949

On World AIDS Day...My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20,1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 pm. I was 22 years old. Sometimes it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading this Iam dead.

Wayne Sumstine

An iconic photo of a young man and his horn. Miles Davis, NYC, 1949. Photograph by Herman Leonard.

Plaza Mayor, España

Picked last in gym? Who cares?…Get on with your gay self… Happy Pride, you’ve come a long way, baby, to get where you got to, today.

Nina Simone performing “Revolution” at the Harlem Festival in 1969.

Gaza October 2024

The tree of life, 2024 - by Skander Khlif (1983), Tunisian/German

In his youth frequenting Els Quatre Gats, Lluís Bagaria was a self taught Spanish illustrator born in Barcelona in 1882. In the 1910-20’s he was considered the most important Spanish political caricaturists. Lluis was also friend to Federico García Lorca, whom he interviewed for the newspaper El Sol shortly before his assassination. Born in Barcelona, it was later in Madrid where he achieved great popularity and fame. His caricatures against fascism during the Spanish Civil War provoked his exile to Paris and into Cuba. At age 57, In 1940, after recently arriving in Havana Lluis died in exile, an anti fascist to the end.

Paul Cadmus

True life meaning