Taylor Dayne Talks Cancer Diagnosis & Love for the LGBTQ+ Community
The longtime ally is encouraging everyone to regularly visit their doctor.
October 10 2023 3:29 PM
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
As art holds an essential place in the LGBT community, The Advocate strives to shine a light on the work of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists who are moving the cultural needle within the artists spotlight section. Discover slideshows from gay art openings across the world with mediums that range from photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read interviews and profiles of contemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and politics within their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sections that celebrate gay culture.
The longtime ally is encouraging everyone to regularly visit their doctor.
Leyendecker's queer aesthetic pre-dated both Norman Rockwell and Tom of Finland and helped shape modern America.
She has over 10 million followers, is a recording artist and an advocate for body positivity, and she's only just begun
Monkman uses painting, sculpture, video, and awesome drag to settle a few scores. His work is hilarious and chilling all at once.
From jazz and blues to pop and folk, these young LGBTQ artists are breaking ground across an ever-changing landscape. And they've only just begun.
Darren Ankenbauer keeps it simple and lets his subjects tell the story. And the story is pretty great.
Jester's magical explorations of the effects of light and water on men's flesh have an anti-gravitational euphoria.
Todd Yeager's beautifully rendered night creatures and lost boys seduce us into his fantasy world. Peter Pan would approve.
Woo Dun's work focuses on masculinity from the sensual to the brutal.
"Ocean’s 8,” the Sandra Bullock-led, all-female spinoff of “Ocean’s Eleven” has opened to $41.5 million from 4,145 screens.
The actress mourns the loss of her friend Anthony Bourdain.
The icon will turn eight of her hits into television episodes, and appear in some of them.
Walters has a strong interest in allegorical figures and mythology.
In delicate, transparent color, Garbow imbues his art with the emotion of memory.
Ivan's drawings are of "ordinary Russian guys ... in a bar, at a construction site, in a forest and, of course, in a Russian bathhouse."
Keeping his sad-eyed drawings small in scale enables Martin to have a more intimate relationship with his art.
The out Tony-, Emmy- and Grammy award-winning actress will face Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in September.
“I sometimes think I look like three different artists living in a single body.”
Young artist Tony Devoney is in a polyamorous relationship with the paint, the color, and the canvas.