Queer Beauty

A world without beauty is a world without love. So during Pride month, please join me in embracing queer beauty as a vision of hope and resistance.

Subverting notions of masculinity and machismo, installation artist Gabriel Dawe uses textiles to examine the complicated construction of gender and identity in his native Mexico. In his installations, he uses thousands of very fine threads—and a giant needle!—to create an ethereal spectrum of light.

Dawe’s work captures the transcendent beauty that queer and trans people bring to the world. His almost-not-there rainbows materialize a vision of liberation and wholeness, offering a sense of hope during difficult times.

Like light, queerness is composed of different colors of the spectrum. For me and so many other members of the rainbow family--especially those who are multiply marginalized--Pride matters because visibility is survival.

Happy Pride, fam. In a society that remains hostile to queer & trans joy and represses the fullness of our humanity, your beauty and bravery are forms of resistance.