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Culture

Jesse Glazzard’s messy portrait of queer friends, lovers and chosen family

The Sound of Dirt and Beauty — The photographer’s debut monograph explores tender, unpolished moments shaped by the people who he surrounds himself with, while offering a window into the UK’s working-class LGBTQ+ community.

Written by: Sunny Sunday

Linda Simpson, Linda Simpson, Gillian, Honey Dijon, and Candis Cayne at Wigstock at the Palladium, 1995. © Linda Simpson. From Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife by Amelia Abraham (MACK, 2026). Courtesy of the artist and MACK.
Culture

Surveying community and resistance in LGBTQ+ nightlife

Sex, Clubs Dissent — A new book collates queer nightlife photography over the past 50 years, and the people who found refuge and safe spaces after dark.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Sport

Inside Parkuir: the art project queering sport, space and our bodies

Lie and play — Founded by Maria Laudes and Guiu Gimeno, it provides a framework for engaging, subverting, and celebrating the small details that make people unique – and queer.

Written by: Molly Lipson

Culture

A major Nan Goldin exhibition is coming to London

You Never Did Anything Wrong — Opening at the Hayward Gallery in November, the show will debut a new film from the artist and activist, alongside a slate of recent work.

Written by: Jack Dennison-Thompson

Music

Celebrating the art of making out on tour with Tove Lo

The Kiss Book — In the wake of the pandemic, photographer Kenny Laubbacher travelled around several countries with the Swedish pop star, capturing the joy and desire of kissing fans.

Written by: Zoe Whitfield

Activism

An intimate window into New York’s ’70s lesbian scene

We Others — An exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery combines Donna Gottschalk’s unearthed photographs of LGBTQ+ activists and friends, along with Hélène Gianneccini’s written histories.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Culture

Free-spirited, otherworldly portraits of Mexico City’s queer youth

Birds — Pieter Henket’s new collaborative photobook creates a stage for CDMX’s LGBTQ+ community to express themselves without limitations, styling themselves with wild outfits that subvert gender and tradition.

Written by: Isaac Muk

Culture

The suave style and subtle codes of gay San Francisco in the ’70s

Seminal Works — Hal Fischer’s new photobook explores the photographer’s archive, in which he documented the street fashion and culture of the city post-Gay Liberation, and pre-AIDS pandemic.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Culture

The stripped, DIY experimentalism of SHOOT zine

Zine Scene — Conceived by photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya in the ’00s, the publication’s photos injected vulnerability into gay portraiture, and provided a window into the characters of the Brooklyn arts scene. A new photobook collates work made across its seven issues.

Written by: Miss Rosen

Activism

Defiant photos of New York’s ’80s & ’90s queer activists

Arresting Images — Dona Ann McAdams’ photographs document the AIDS crisis, lesbian organising and civil disobedience from one of the most fraught eras in American LGBTQ+ history. A sale of her archive takes place later this month.

Written by: Sydney Lobe

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