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LGBTQ* Graphic Novels to Keep on Your Radar

(AKA, LGBTQ* graphic novels the KNOWhomo team is currently reading)

TRANSPOSES by Dylan Edwards

“Transposes will teach you something about what it means to have a body and to feel desire. About what it means, in short, to be human.” - Alison Bechdel From the foreword by the New York Times bestselling author of FUN HOME and ARE YOU MY MOTHER

TRANSPOSES separates gender from sexuality and illustrates six fascinating true stories of transgender men who also happen to be queer. The result is a laugh-out-loud, funny, heartbreaking, challenging, inventive, informative, and invites the reader to explore what truly makes a man a man.

Interested? Read some of the first pages HERE.

Note from Rebecca:

I ordered TRANSPOSES after running into it time and time again online. (I am an avid comic book and graphic novel reader.) I ordered it from NORTHWEST PRESS and had it in my hands within 2-3 days (at regular shipping price). If you are unfamiliar with NORTHWEST PRESS and enjoy queer graphic expression and fiction, I highly recommend spending some time on their site.

Posted 3 months ago

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LGBTQ* Online Comics You (Might) Want To Know

Khaos Komix - http://www.khaoskomix.com

Above panel from Nay’s storyline

Posted 8 months ago

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LBGTQ* Comic/Graphic Arists You Should Know

Intro comic from Alison Bechdel’s The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For

Posted 9 months ago

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LGBTQ* History You Might Have Missed in Art Class

Peter Gluck (1895-1978)

Gluck, an English trans* artist, born a wealthy and close-knit Jewish family, was a noted floral painter. His most well known work came later in life with Medallion, which featured Gluck and his long time partner of 34 years, Edith Shackleton Heald. Gluck also painted the Vigo Press cover of Well of Loneliness.

Posted 9 months ago

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LBGTQ* Theatres YOU SHOULD Know

About Face Theatre - Chicago (following text from About Face’s Website)

Mission: About Face Theatre creates exceptional, innovative, and adventurous plays to advance the national dialogue on gender and sexual identity, and to challenge and entertain audiences in Chicago, across the country, and around the world.(from website)

Current Production:

WHAT’S THE T?
By the About Face Youth Theatre Ensemble and Sara Kerastas
July 13 – August 4th

Internet personality/trans activist/ fierce community leader Ms. Ma uses her YouTube page to create community, live glamour, and spread the good word about queer safe spaces in Chicago. WHAT’S THE T? tells the story of Ms Ma’s tangled web of connections, her struggle to stay positive, and what happens to her community when she disappears.

Inspired by issues of race, gender, age and class in Boystown, WHAT’S THE T? is based on true stories and interviews from LGBTQA young folks in and around Chicago.
(for more information, visit their Box Office!)

Want to get to know more about the AFT Interns?! Visit their Tumblr. (http://aboutfaceinterns.tumblr.com/)

Posted 10 months ago

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LGBTQ* Comics and Graphic Artists You Should Know

Tim Barela’s Leonard and Larry

Posted 10 months ago

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LGBTQ* Artist You Should Know

Reginald Marsh

-Illustrations/art/etchings part of the series “Chop Suey Dancers”

-Late 1920s

-Depicted couples of the same sex dancing together in New York nightspots

-Many characters intentionally created to be ambiguous (Marsh wanted audience to ask if dancers were assumed gender, in drag, or androgynous)

Posted 11 months ago

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LBGTQ* (Pansexual) Deviant Artist You Should Know

Art/Mixed Media by SweetspeaAk

Digital Art / Mixed Media / Political

Posted 1 year ago

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LGBTQ* Did You Know Art History

BATMAN is (not) Gay!

Did you know?

In 2005, DC comics sent a “cease and desist” letter to both Mark Chamberlain (the artist of the above image) and Kathleen Cullen Fine Art’s studio telling them to pull all artwork depicting the DC characters.

Due to copyright infringement (DC owns Batman’s image), DC and Chamberlain eventually settled on displaying the images but not selling them.

Posted 1 year ago

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Lesbian Comics You Should Know

Dykes to Watch Out For - Alison Bechdel’s syndicated strip about lesbian and gay life (full strip now available in one book)
Girly - A comic about love
I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space - Just what the title says
Jane’s World - Paige Braddock’s comic strip
simply sarah - Award winning slice-of-life comic about love relationships and growing-up. Contains lesbian themes and a transgender character
DAR - DAR! chronicles the six year long autobiographical story of Erika Moen, a lost 20-year-old lesbian artist-wannabe in college who falls in love with a boy in England and the evolution that her sexual identity undergoes before winding up marrying him as a queer 26-year-old full-time cartoonist

Posted 1 year ago

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LBGTQ* Art and Expression Works You May Have Missed

David Wajarowicz’s “Untitled”

Piece in response to growing up Queer*. The piece has been a hot button art piece for over 20 years and was censored by publishers throughout the 90s.

Posted 1 year ago

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