#drawingpride

Last day of #DrawingPride! What a great way to celebrate #Pride with #Art!
Day 30: #Celebration
Be sure to check out @drawingpride to see all the amazing art we made this month!
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#Queerpower #Pride2018 #lgbtq #lgbtqia #illustration #queerart #gayartist #prideflag #fantasy #characterart #Oceaners #rooftop #party #prideparty #westvillage #prideparade #newyorkcity #fourarms #vectorart #rainbow

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 28: #Lipstick
I art directed & designed this illustration by the awesome @tanaford.designs #TanaFord for #ServingPride, the Queer History Dinner Party Handbook. It’s from the chapter that talks about the stifling, repressive era between the 1930s and the 1960s. Queer people were demonized and shamed, terrorized by authorities, and often depicted as a threat to the American way of life.
#pride #pride2018 #queer #lgbtq #lesbian #housewife #mororcycle #seduction #reefermadness #parody #repression #lipsticklesbian #leatherjacket #greaser #gender #mothers #bikergang #butch #butchlesbian #queerhistory #americanhistory
Also! My #Kickstarter for the #QueerGeekPrideFlag is going SUPER well! Thank you for all the support!
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#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 28: #Lipstick
I art directed & designed this illustration by the awesome @tanaford.designs #TanaFord for #ServingPride, the Queer History Dinner Party Handbook. It’s from the chapter that talks about the stifling, repressive era between the 1930s to the 1960s. Queer people were demonized and shamed, terrorized by authorities, and often depicted as a threat to the American way of life.
#pride #pride2018 #queer #lgbtq #lesbian #housewife #mororcycle #seduction #reefermadness #parody #repression #lipsticklesbian #leatherjacket #greaser #gender #mothers #bikergang #butch #butchlesbian #queerhistory #americanhistory
Also! My #Kickstarter for the #QueerGeekPrideFlag is going SUPER well! Thank you for all the support!
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#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 28: #Lipstick
I art directed & designed this illustration by the awesome @tanaford.designs #TanaFord for #ServingPride, the Queer History Dinner Party Handbook. It’s from the chapter that talks about the stifling, repressive era between the 1930s and the 1960s. Queer people were demonized and shamed, terrorized by authorities, and often depicted as a threat to the American way of life.
#pride #pride2018 #queer #lgbtq #lesbian #housewife #mororcycle #seduction #reefermadness #parody #repression #lipsticklesbian #leatherjacket #greaser #gender #mothers #bikergang #butch #butchlesbian #queerhistory #americanhistory
Also! My #Kickstarter for the #QueerGeekPrideFlag is going SUPER well! Thank you for all the support!
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#DrawingPride all June!
Day 27: #Femme
Here’s a detail from the @jenniewoodndid story I drew for the Cosmic Love anthology of comics & art inspired by #Florenceandthemachine @florenceandthemachine @florence

Feeling a lot of rage against the patriarchy today. Let’s be done with it.
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But hey, my #QueerGeekPrideFlag Kickstarter is doing great! For real, lots of love and gratitude is lifting me on this tough day. I hope this symbol gives energy to people as we all share the struggle that is ahead.
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#lgbtq #pride #queerart #queerartist #comics #loveiscosmic #cosmiclove #persevere #queerlove #lgbtrights #teencomics #teenager #highschool #pride2018

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 26: #yassss!
It’s THE FLAMING GAZE, from the @geeksout #PrideSquad! He stared too long and too deeply into an enchanted mirror, and now his perfect looks are haunted by an ancient vanity demon. Don’t take a selfie with him, lest you lose your soul! .
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BUT WAIT! My #Kickstarter for the #QueerGeekPrideFlag made it to 64% on its first day! How crazy is that?!
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#lgbtq #pride #pride2018 #queerart #queer #comics #gaycomics #gayart #gayartist #gogoboy #sixpack #firesofhell #superhero #red #spandex #illustration #characterdesign #originalcharacter #adobeillustrator #vectorart #yasss #yasssss #yassssss #yassssssss! @drawingpride

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 26: #yassss!
It’s THE FLAMING GAZE, from the @geeksout #PrideSquad! He stared too long and too deeply into an enchanted mirror, and now his perfect looks are haunted by an ancient vanity demon. Don’t take a selfie with him, lest you lose your soul! .
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BUT WAIT! My #Kickstarter for the #QueerGeekPrideFlag made it to 64% on its first day! How crazy is that?!
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#lgbtq #pride #pride2018 #queerart #queer #comics #gaycomics #gayart #gayartist #gogoboy #sixpack #firesofhell #superhero #red #spandex #illustration #characterdesign #originalcharacter #adobeillustrator #vectorart #yasss #yasssss #yassssss #yassssssss! @drawingpride

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 26: #yassss!
It’s THE FLAMING GAZE, from the @geeksout #PrideSquad! He stared too long and too deeply into an enchanted mirror, and now his perfect looks are haunted by an ancient vanity demon. Don’t take a selfie with him, lest you lose your soul! .
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BUT WAIT! My #Kickstarter for the #QueerGeekPrideFlag made it to 64% on its first day! How crazy is that?!
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#lgbtq #pride #pride2018 #queerart #queer #comics #gaycomics #gayart #gayartist #gogoboy #sixpack #firesofhell #superhero #red #spandex #illustration #characterdesign #originalcharacter #adobeillustrator #vectorart #yasss #yasssss #yassssss #yassssssss! @drawingpride

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 25: #Empowered
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space. She spent over 300 hours orbiting the earth, and was the first person to use a robot arm for satellite recovery. She devoted her life to science and discovery. She was very private about her personal life, but after she passed, a lifelong relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy was brought to light. They had been partnered for almost 30 years and had known one another even longer. I don’t consider it a knock against her character that she never came out publicly. But, what a powerful thing it would have been - if all of us who were inspired by her courage and intelligence over the years could have also known that she was queer.

HEY LQQK!
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#QueerGeekPrideFlag
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#pride #pride2018 #queer #geek #science #astronaut #SallyRide #TamOShaughnessy #SpaceShutte #NASA @nasa #motivationalposter #motivationalquotes #adventure #spaceprogram #lgbtq #patricknagel #80s #illustration #queerart #queerartist #lesbian #bisexual #defyinggravity #weightless

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 25: #Empowered
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space. She spent over 300 hours orbiting the earth, and was the first person to use a robot arm for satellite recovery. She devoted her life to science and discovery. She was very private about her personal life, but after she passed, a lifelong relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy was brought to light. They had been partnered for almost 30 years and had known one another even longer. I don’t consider it a knock against her character that she never came out publicly. But, what a powerful thing it would have been - if all of us who were inspired by her courage and intelligence over the years could have also known that she was queer.

HEY LQQK!
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#QueerGeekPrideFlag
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#pride #pride2018 #queer #geek #science #astronaut #SallyRide #TamOShaughnessy #SpaceShutte #NASA @nasa #motivationalposter #motivationalquotes #adventure #spaceprogram #lgbtq #patricknagel #80s #illustration #queerart #queerartist #lesbian #bisexual #defyinggravity #weightless

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 25: #Empowered
Sally Ride was the first American woman to go to space. She spent over 300 hours orbiting the earth, and was the first person to use a robot arm for satellite recovery. She devoted her life to science and discovery. She was very private about her personal life, but after she passed, a lifelong relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy was brought to light. They had been partnered for almost 30 years and had known one another even longer. I don’t consider it a knock against her character that she never came out publicly. But, what a powerful thing it would have been - if all of us who were inspired by her courage and intelligence over the years could have also known that she was queer.

HEY LQQK!
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#QueerGeekPrideFlag
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#pride #pride2018 #queer #geek #science #astronaut #SallyRide #TamOShaughnessy #SpaceShutte #NASA @nasa #motivationalposter #motivationalquotes #adventure #spaceprogram #lgbtq #patricknagel #80s #illustration #queerart #queerartist #lesbian #bisexual #defyinggravity #weightless

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 23: #Unity
I had the honor of art directing and coloring this illustration for #ServingPride drawn by the amazing @bixby_baron “Out In Public” illustrates the ways queer people from the early 1900s would find one another through codes and signals.

From Serving Pride: “The first queer subcultures arose among working class people who, unlike elites, did not have space to socialize in their homes. Instead, they found privacy in public: Saloons, street corners, rooftops. Sound familiar?
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Then, as now, there was no single queer community, only a multiplicity of queer spaces and networks following the contours of a country divided by race, sex, and class.
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These queer networks helped fuel bohemian movements throughout the 1920s, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood.”
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#queerhistory #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #pride #pride2018 #SevingPride #illustration #CEdwards #lgbtq #hankycode #underground #speakeasy #gaybar #rooftopparty #gaymusic #gaydancing #gaycruising (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 23: #Unity
I had the honor of art directing and coloring this illustration for #ServingPride drawn by the amazing @bixby_baron “Out In Public” illustrates the ways queer people from the early 1900s would find one another through codes and signals.

From Serving Pride: “The first queer subcultures arose among working class people who, unlike elites, did not have space to socialize in their homes. Instead, they found privacy in public: Saloons, street corners, rooftops. Sound familiar?
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Then, as now, there was no single queer community, only a multiplicity of queer spaces and networks following the contours of a country divided by race, sex, and class.
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These queer networks helped fuel bohemian movements throughout the 1920s, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood.”
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#queerhistory #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #pride #pride2018 #SevingPride #illustration #CEdwards #lgbtq #hankycode #underground #speakeasy #gaybar #rooftopparty #gaymusic #gaydancing #gaycruising (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 23: #Unity
I had the honor of art directing and coloring this illustration for #ServingPride drawn by the amazing @bixby_baron “Out In Public” illustrates the ways queer people from the early 1900s would find one another through codes and signals.

From Serving Pride: “The first queer subcultures arose among working class people who, unlike elites, did not have space to socialize in their homes. Instead, they found privacy in public: Saloons, street corners, rooftops. Sound familiar?
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Then, as now, there was no single queer community, only a multiplicity of queer spaces and networks following the contours of a country divided by race, sex, and class.
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These queer networks helped fuel bohemian movements throughout the 1920s, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood.”
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#queerhistory #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #pride #pride2018 #SevingPride #illustration #CEdwards #lgbtq #hankycode #underground #speakeasy #gaybar #rooftopparty #gaymusic #gaydancing #gaycruising (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 23: #Unity
I had the honor of art directing and coloring this illustration for #ServingPride drawn by the amazing @bixby_baron “Out In Public” illustrates the ways queer people from the early 1900s would find one another through codes and signals.

From Serving Pride: “The first queer subcultures arose among working class people who, unlike elites, did not have space to socialize in their homes. Instead, they found privacy in public: Saloons, street corners, rooftops. Sound familiar?
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Then, as now, there was no single queer community, only a multiplicity of queer spaces and networks following the contours of a country divided by race, sex, and class.
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These queer networks helped fuel bohemian movements throughout the 1920s, from the Harlem Renaissance to Hollywood.”
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#queerhistory #queer #gay #lesbian #bisexual #pride #pride2018 #SevingPride #illustration #CEdwards #lgbtq #hankycode #underground #speakeasy #gaybar #rooftopparty #gaymusic #gaydancing #gaycruising (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride all June!
Day 22: #Faery
Another genderless #Gemsona inspired by the #Gucci line. This is ALEXANDRITE!
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#StevenUniverse #GucciGems #CrystalGems #agender #genderqueer #nonbinary #queer #characterdesign #animation #wings #dailyart #dailyillustration #characterart #pride #pride2018 #queerart #lgbtq #lgbtqart (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride all June!
Day 21: #Queer
Although the gems of #StevenUniverse are “genderless rocks” they usually do present themselves as male or female. What if there were more gems that didn’t? I drew some #genderless #gemsonas based on designs and models from #Gucci! This is JET. They/them/theirs.
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#GucciGems #genderqueer #nonbinary #nonbinarypride #pride2018 #queerart #genderless #queercharacter #characterdesign #crystalgems #su #levitation #tracksuit #fashion #fashionillustration #fashionweek #illustrationoftheday #they @drawingpride (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for June! Day 20: #DIVINE
This is Rita. I found her in a thrift shop in the Catskills and she gives me strength.
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Busy working on the #QueerGeekPrideFlag Kickstarter, so no actual drawing today, but I’ll be back with more #queerart tomorrow!
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#queersculpture #notadrawing #pride #pride201 #queen #dragqueen #blondwig #kimono (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for June!
Day 19: #Lust!
Aqualad in a bathtub. Swipe right for the naked version. You’re welcome!
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#pride #pride2018 #aqualad #youngjustice #bathtub #bathing #queer #queerart #queerartists #naked #superhero #dccomics #animation #vectorart #illustration #sexy #fanart #aquatic #water #blackcharacters (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride every day in June!
Day 18: #Daddy
BROADSWORD! Another character from the @geeksout #pridesquad His awesome sword transforms him from a regular every-day muscle-daddy to a muscle daddy who wears ancient purple armor and carries as sword!
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#pride2018 #pride #gaypride #queerart #queercharacters #gaydaddy #gaycharacter #gaypoc #poccharacters #characterdesign #superhero #broadsword #magicsword #gaysword #gaymuscle #gaybald #gaybeard #purple #pinksword #gayartist #leatherstraps #artistsoninstagram #knight #merkin (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 17: #Lesbian - Alison Bechdel!
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#queer #lesbianpride #lgbtq #cartoonist #queerart #queerartist #lesbianartist #motivationalposter #motivationalquotes #pride #pride2018 #patricknagel #80sart #dykestowatchoutfor #funhome #ringofkeys #triangles #inkdrawing #illustration #popart #queerpride #transpride #gaypride (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 16: #OUT
This is Alan turing. His genius saved the west from Nazis. He attempted to live honestly and didn’t deny having a male lover when he was questioned about it by officials. His own government then proceeded to have him chemically castrated “for national security reasons.” Coming out is hard and dangerous and should always be celebrated, no matter how common it might seem to us. Living an authentic life as a queer person is always a risk, and often a sacrifice. Next time someone calls for a Straight Pride month, fuck them up.
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@drawingpride #alanturing #turing #pride #motivationalquotes #motivationalposter #lgbt #pride2018 #patricknagel #homage #80sart #codebreaker #imitationgame #benedictcumberbatch #queer #queerart #queerartist #lgbt #queerlove #queerlove #homophobia #wwii #nazifighter (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 16: #OUT
This is Alan turing. His genius saved the west from Nazis. He attempted to live honestly and didn’t deny having a male lover when he was questioned about it by officials. His own government then proceeded to have him chemically castrated “for national security reasons.” Coming out is hard and dangerous and should always be celebrated, no matter how common it might seem to us. Living an authentic life as a queer person is always a risk, and often a sacrifice. Next time someone calls for a Straight Pride month, fuck them up.
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@drawingpride #alanturing #turing #pride #motivationalquotes #motivationalposter #lgbt #pride2018 #patricknagel #homage #80sart #codebreaker #imitationgame #benedictcumberbatch #queer #queerart #queerartist #lgbt #queerlove #queerlove #homophobia #wwii #nazifighter (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride Day 15: #Pansexual
1992 - I was 17, and drew this portrait of Leonard Bernstein from a photo I saw for the cover of my high school’s literary magazine.

His wild, passionate, perfectly reckless music that channeled so much of the anxious, fast-changing spirit of America was QUEER. He was queer. Everyone knew it. But no one really knew how to talk about it, so it became a footnote. It’s an aspect of his legacy that’s framed separately from his art and his contributions to society. Even though it was probably his sexuality that drove him, that released his creativity, that made him who he was.

Which is why I am really disappointed by the @skirball_la’s single mention of his sexuality in their current retrospective on his life and work (which is otherwise excellent.) SWIPE RIGHT to see the signage. It presents his sexuality to us like a problematic skin condition.

In reality: Leonard and his wife Felicia established an open marriage that suited them, and except for a short separation near the end, they stayed together for 25 years and raised three kids. They were married until she died. It was rocky, and it sounds like L really did go for the boys, but he and Felicia loved each other (letters express it quite clearly), and unless you apply a really starchy definition of heterosexual death-do-us-part marriage, I think that their relationship can be called a relative success.

Yet, this sign only makes mention of: His “complicated” double life – Hiding his passions from public view – Felicia resigning to accommodate his sexuality – The separation and tragic end to the marriage – and no mention of his male companions. Some were famous in their own right, but in this summation of his love life they might as well have been faceless distractions.
WTF?

He didn’t come from a time when people identified as Pansexual, or rarely even bisexual. Maybe he was? However we might choose to assess his sexuality, it was clearly a huge part of his being. And it doesn’t make sense to downplay its importance as we try to understand his art and his genius.

#queer #queerartist #leonardbernstein
#pride #pride2018 #queerhistory #lgbt #lgbtq #bierasure #classicalmusic #composer

#drawingpride for June!
Day 13: #WERK
Serving #SexyTardigrade realness inspired by the amazing @kimchi_chic!
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#pride #drag #queer #lqqks #dragrace #kimchi #kimchidragqueen #rpdr #tardigrade #sexytardigradetheater #queerart #queerartist #gayart #gaysketch #gayartistsofinstagram #runwayfashion #ladyfingers #glamour #glamourmodel #microscopiclife #illustration #dragqueen #blondewig #fingernails #realness (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 11: #twink
This is APP, the tech-twink member of the Pride Squad! They can zoom in and enhance ANY image. They can google… anything!! Their greatest weakness: no signal!
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#pride #pride2018️‍ #pride2018 #twinks #jumper #ftm #transgender #trans #gay #queer #queerart #gayartist #CharacterDesign #lgbt #lgbtqia #iphonex #twinkgay #grindr #app #pridesquad #green #jumper (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 10: #Asexual - Luke Skywalker!
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#lgbtqia #lgbtq #queer #ace #jedi #lightsaber #starwars #returnofthejedi #thelastjedi #swtlj
#jedimindtricks #jedimindtrick #greenlightsaber #darkness #shadows #illustration #vectorart #gaysketch #queerart #queerartist #pride #acepride #pride2018 #asexualcharacter #spaceace (at Los Angeles, California)

#DrawingPride for the month of June!
Day 9: #DRAG!
I’ve never done drag, but if I did, I’d be
JACARANDA LEAVES!
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@drawingpride #dragqueen #draglife #dragrace #dragperfection #dragsona #pridemonth #pride #pride2018 #selfportrait #dragart #illustration #digitalart #queer #queerart #queerartist #artistsofinstagram #illustratorsofinstagram #violet #pink #beard #beardsofinstagram #beardedqueen #flowerbeard #lgbt #gagging (at Los Angeles, California)