Explore LGBTQ History: Arts & Culture

A collection of poems from the Poetry Foundation editors. See below for a few selections:

"We worry // about insurance, interest rates. Not hot dogs thrown from F-150s, / homophobic freaks."

"...when we speak we are afraid / our words will not be heard / nor welcomed / but when we are silent / we are still afraid // So it is better to speak / remembering / we were never meant to survive."

"Love can't block a bullet / but neither can it be shot down, / and love is, for the most part, what makes us— / in Orlando and in Brooklyn and in Kabul."

Black hip-hop artists are part of the LGBTQ community and act as a bridge between both. This article highlights some local Baltimore LGBTQ pioneers in the hip-hop genre.

From "Queer Eye" to "Will & Grace" and everything in between, here are 30 LGBTQ+ shows that changed everything for queer representation on TV.

"It’s taken me 23 years to realize that a label doesn’t offer some kind of inner truth into my identity or sexuality."

2023 has been a terrific year for music, and a lot of the best music has come from LGBTQ+ artists. Here are our twenty favorites from this year in descending order.

Google Arts & Culture brings you this brief exhibit on Keith Haring, the street artist of 1980’s New York City, who expressed all he could in his short life of 31 years, and left with us his hopes and dreams.

Be inspired by these 8 influential LGBTQI+ artists, brought to you by Google Arts & Culture