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Peter Hujar's Italian Reverie

From the underground art star, a delicate picture of youth.

Interviews

Trans Lives Illuminated

Since the 1970s, Mariette Pathy Allen has photographed the lives of trans and gender nonconforming people around the world.

Essays

The Queen Unleashed

Lyle Ashton Harris’s archive offers a glimpse of a queer, black ’90s.

Portfolios

Elle Pérez’s Havens of Queer Liberation

On dance floors from the Bronx to Baltimore, the artist captures LGBT youth who refuse to be forgotten.

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From Stonewall to AIDS, Framing Queer Desire

A recent forum at MoMA reveals a rich, often-overlooked thread of queer history and photography.

Reviews

The Archipelago of Desire

In Cape Verde, a Portuguese photographer documents the trans community with candid intimacy.

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