drdre4000 (he/him)(Boston, MA) - Andre Isaacs, an associate professor of chemistry, uses his platform to push the envelope on the capacity of the STEM community and challenges normative STEM culture through dances, skits, and educational content to demonstrate what an inclusive space could look like for the next generation of scientists, primarily those with marginalized identities. From an introspective stance, Pride to me is something that I embody every day and grapple with on a day-to-day basis internally and externally. My body has a trans and ambiguous identity and through wearing it every day, I’ve learned to be the most proud of it and grateful for its ability. It takes a great deal of courage to push against social constructs and be your authentic self no matter the consequences or circumstances. Pride for me is equivalent to a courageous moment, action, and overall way of being. It’s truly a powerful and yet very difficult responsibility I have to take on to challenge societal norms, so that I and others can feel like our lives are worth living. Self-portraiture allows me to dig deeper into what it means to reclaim autonomy over our stories as marginalized individuals. In addition to this, I work with the hope of providing representation to and solidarity with future generations of queer and trans individuals as they navigate both personal joys and institutional hardship and erasure. This isn’t a mindset I like to have, but I often think that making self-portraits is my twisted way to claim authorship over my image and not be misattributed. I’ve experienced being mistaken for someone before, and a friend has been mistaken for me, and that happens in different ways. I’ve had parts of my artist statement used to describe another queer Chinese photographer in a magazine. It might sound silly, but given the frequency of these experiences throughout my life, it’s less silly to me. Ultimately, I just want to say, “I was here, this is my work, and it may have done something for you.” Totally new pixel art coloring book by numbers with fascinating pixel art paint by numbers images is finally here. Ultimate de-stress and relaxing coloring by number coloring book is suitable for any taste and ages. This pixel coloring book is perfect pixel art paint by number therapy that will let your stress go away. Try LGBT Color by Number for Adults coloring book with easy & challenging pixel art pictures JUST FOR YOU to relax. Color by number anywhere. Relax. Enjoy!

I use self-portraiture in two ways: I create photographs where I respond subjectively to personal and emotional processes. These images are often made in response to and in conversation with historical artworks and references such as the vanitas motif, religious paintings, and iconic gay artists who shaped my understanding of queer self-representation, like Pedro Lemebel, David Wojnarowicz, and Robert Mapplethorpe. I also use my body in endurance performances that have a broader social and political meaning. That is the case of Inverted World (2016) and Legacy (2019), where I perform difficult actions for a live audience and/or for the camera that speak to the weight of historical mythology and historiography on queer subjectivities, identities, and bodies. In Inverted World, I perform a physical reenactment of Caravaggio’s 1601 painting Crucifixion of Saint Peter, an upside-down crucifixion, assisted by two bondage artists to discuss the ways in which narratives of martyrdom have been historically assimilated and foundational to normative social behaviors. And in Legacy, while wearing a dental gag, I try to speak a historical timeline of HIV/AIDS from 1908 until the present. These works are not about me per se, but I use my body and my experience as stand-ins for larger issues that affect my communities. We started to get success at a time that was pretty different politically for queer people,” elaborated Scheppard. “We couldn’t earnestly be like, It is valuable and amazing and good enough that I’m just gay! That idea was hysterical— like, very few of the stars of Queer Eye have an amazing proficiency in the thing they’re supposed to be good at— it’s just them being gay that makes it amazing. I always thought that was so funny, like mediocrity with the gay label on it suddenly makes it so sparkly. So that’s kind of the seed that ended up blossoming into the whole point of view of the brand.”Despite my best efforts, I am still perplexed as to why it doesn’t work. In my high school, there were some gothy/drama boys and a few grunge guys who wore nail polish. It’s not as serious as it sounds. Keyboard shortcuts are supported in this dialog, and for mobile devices with small screens, I made it Though the gallery was “above-grade,” cops showed up anyway. Ever the smooth-talker, Leslie greeted them: “Oh hello, officers, are you here to see the show?” The police tried in vain to convince Leslie not to hang the paintings on the walls. “They were so clumsy, they didn’t know what they were doing,” Leslie said. At the end of it, “the police couldn’t do anything. It was painting!”

It was like a mini-game version of the larger game of capitalism,” Titus continued, “where so much opportunity was presenting itself, and we were trying to expand, and do more and more and more and more and more, and branch out, and make product, and do this and that, just because it was there. It was like, Get bigger! Get more money! Just because that’s what you do. It got to a point where we got burnt out and we were like, What are we even doing? Where are we going?” Think of the horrible view we have of sex, even though we’re the most overly sexualized country in the world,” Leslie mused. “Scratch the surface and there is this Puritanism that goes on and on and on.” That “American prudishness,” he said, was absent in European culture. He recalled going to a government-sponsored gay bar in Amsterdam: “The first thing you saw when you walked in was this huge, long bar with a gigantic picture of Queen Juliana smiling out at her gay subjects.” Earlier this year, the pair was commissioned to paint a Pride mural on the Santa Monica Pier—their largest exterior paint project to date—and Clare helped them get the job done. (Hint: they used a product we’re launching soon—can you guess what it is?) “We wanted to create something that was joyous yet impactful,” Nicholas says. “Not just a run-of-the-mill rainbow walkway.”

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I very much think of Very Gay Paint as a character that I play,” reflected Titus. “We created these two muralists that play in this way, in this satirical and irreverent and absurd voice around being gay. But it took a while to separate the identities. It is Nic and Jenson, but it’s not really us. But then we’re perceived as them, like when we go paint for clients. I get the sense that they are seeing us as these people in these videos, and it’s really interesting. It’s weird when people don’t get the brand and what we’re doing. It’s nuanced, for sure.”

n00nice(she/they)(Rapid City, SD) - Eunice Straight Head is an Indigenous artist who is Mnicouju Lakota, from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation. They use photography as a foundation to branch out into various creative forms, such as fashion, cosplay, beading, sewing, and more to bring Indigenous representation to the media. My understanding is that there are no gay men who paint their nails; I would be ignorant to the extent that I know this. In a nutshell, it is a way of saying “Yep, that’s right, I’m a cool dude.” The procedure is less invasive and less permanent than piercings, and it can be avoided before a prospective employer’s next interview. In the past, there was a ban on nail varnish for people in the upper classes, regardless of gender. Women painted their nails to indicate their cleanliness around the turn of the century in France. In the 1930s, companies such as Revlon marketed red and pink nail polish directly to female customers. On a purely aesthetic level, nail polish does not work well for men. Learn more about the super fun and talented duo behind Very Gay Paint , from how they got started to their design process. Nicholas and Jenson give us the scoop ahead.

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