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Yearning for a dose of LGBTQ history and culture? Welcome to Zooming Through Queer Culture: a series of live, on-line tours and lectures by the top guides and writers on LGBTQ culture, history, and art.
Check back regularly for new dates and new tours as the program expands. Events generally take place at 2 pm EST (11 am PST, 7 pm GMT) and run approximately 75 minutes, including time for Q&A. Tickets are $12 per person and include a video link good for 2 weeks.
Upcoming Tours:
Sunday May 8: Crazy Little Thing Called Freddie Mercury, with Dan Vo
Sunday May 15: The First Queer Politics: Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in 19th Century Britain, with Professor Charles Upchurch
Sunday May 22: Queen Anne and her Warring “Favourites,” with Nick Collinson
Sunday June 5: Queer Cinema 2022, with Peter Stein
Sunday June 12: Black Gay Hero of the Civil Rights Movement: the Life of Bayard Rustin, with Professor John D’Emilio
Sunday June 19: The Mega LGBTQ+ History Tour of Greenwich Village, with Professor Andrew Lear
Past Tours (which may be repeated):
2020
Sunday May 31. Professor Andrew Lear, Gay Secrets of the Metropolitan Museum, our FREE inaugural lecture (donations accepted)
Sunday June 7. George Benson, What makes an artwork queer? A Queer Tour of MoMA
Sunday June 14. Dan Vo, Queer Britannia—an LGBTQ tour of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Sunday June 21. Oisin O’Nuallain, Oscar Wilde’s Dublin
Tuesday June 23. Ken Lustbader and Jay Shockley of the NYC LGBT Sites project, The Gay Pride Tour of LGBT History in Greenwich Village
Wednesday June 24. FREE EVENT (*at 7 pm EST*). The Gay and Lesbian Review interviews Dr Eric Cervini on his new book, “The Deviant’s War”
Saturday June 26. Nick Collinson, a tour for London Pride! The Bloomsbury Set and Queer Soho—a tour of London’s gayest neighborhoods
Sunday July 12. Professor Andrew Lear. Gay Gods and Heroes: an LGBT History and Art tour of Greece and Italy
Sunday July 19, The Glass House: a home for two gentlemen and the arts
Sunday July 26. LBGTinsel Town Tour – An LBGTQ+ historical look into the Golden Age of Hollywood, Jim Anzide
August 2 — Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein and More in Paris’ Père Lachaise Cemetery: Liberté, Sexualité, Eternité, Professor Andrew Lear
August 9 — The Gay Graves of New York’s Green-Wood Cemetery Tour, Phil Desiere
August 16 — High Time and Hot Times in Homo Harlem, 1920-1990, Michael Henry Adams
August 23 — Live Like a Queen: a look at Britain’s queer stately homes, Nick Collinson and Dan Vo
August 30 — The Whitney Museum of (Queer) American Art, Joshua Lubin-Levy
September 13 — Unhung Heroes of the Metropolitan Museum, Professor Andrew Lear
September 20 — A Queer History of the World: 10 objects in the British Museum, Jack Shoulder
Saturday September 26 — The World’s Gayest National Portrait Gallery: an LGBTQ tour of the NPG London, Professor Andrew Lear
October 4 — Contemporary Queers, a queer tour of MoMA, George Benson
October 11 — From Whitman to Wigstock: an LGBTQ writers and artists tour of Greenwich Village, by Professor Andrew Lear
October 18 — London’s Tite St: Street of Wonderful, Queer Possibilities, by Dr Devon Cox
October 25 — Gay Secrets of the Louvre Museum, with Professor Andrew Lear
Saturday October 31—Fright Night at the Metropolitan, a tour of the Met’s spookiest corners, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday November 8—From Cabaret to today: an LGBTQ tour of Berlin, with Brendan Nash
Sunday November 15—Revealing the Secret Gay Code in Iconic Works of Art, with Ignacio Danaude
Sunday December 6—London Theatreland LGBTQ Tour, from Oscar Wilde to Ian McKellan, with Nick Collinson and Dan Vo
Sunday December 13—Broadway Theater LGBTQ Tour, with Jay Shockley (NYC LGBT Sites Project)
Sunday December 20—Queer British Art at the Tate, with George Benson
2021
Sunday January 10—LGBTQ Palaces and Castles, from Alexander the Great to Mad Ludwig, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday January 17—The Queer Allure of Art Deco, with Zorian Clayton and Dawn Hoskin
Sunday January 24—Downtown Queer Art Crawl, Keith Haring, and more, with George Benson and Amy Raffel
Sunday January 31—The Shocking Double Lives of Gay Artists, from Caravaggio to Warhol, with Ignacio Darnaude
Sunday February 7—Call Me By Your Name and more: author André Aciman interviewed by Franco Mormando about gay themes in his novels
Sunday February 14 12 pm—Valentine’s Day Special Part I: LGBTQ Love Stories in the World’s Most Romantic City, Paris, with Professor Andrew Lear and Edith de Belleville
Sunday February 14 2 pm—Valentine’s Day Special Part II: LGBTQ Love Stories in the World’s Least Romantic City, Berlin, with Brendan Nash
Sunday February 21 2 pm—LGBTQ History Tour of Provincetown, with Russ Lopez
Sunday February 28 2 pm—Queer Music, from Schubert to Sylvester, with Nick Collinson and Dan Vo
Sunday March 7 2 pm—Boston’s MFA, one of the top LGBTQ museums, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday March 14 2 pm—The Romantic friendship of Byron & Shelley, with Professor Colin Carman
Sunday March 21 2 pm—James Baldwin: from Harlem to Hollywood, with Professor Kenneth Stuckey
Sunday April 11 2 pm—Opening the Commercial Closet, with Mike Wilke
Sunday April 18 2 pm —Queer Beginnings of Modern Art, with George Benson
Sunday April 25 2 pm—A Gay Romp Through Four Centuries of Opera: Not Everyone Can Be The Queen, with Fred Plotkin
Sunday May 2 2 pm—Eventually We’re All Queer: Isherwood’s Identities and Legacies, with Professor Christopher Freeman
Saturday May 8 2 pm—Oscar Wilde’s London, and Paris, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday May 16 2 pm—Michelangelo and Leonardo, the first modern gays?, with Nick Collinson
Sunday May 23 2 pm—Nureyev, dancing and loves, with Dan Vo
Sunday June 6 2 pm—1869: The Birth of “Homosexuality,” in Germany, with Professor Robert Tobin
Sunday June 13 2 pm—The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams, with Jonathan Ned Katz
Wednesday June 16 7 pm—The LGBTQ+ Tour of the Harlem Renaissance: as black as it was gay, with Corey Serrant
Sunday June 20 2 pm—Uncovering LGBT History Through the Voices of Heroes, with Eric Marcus
Wednesday June 23 7 pm—LGBTQ+ Art in New York, Before and After Stonewall, with George Benson
Saturday June 26 12 pm Pride special—LGBTQ History Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, with Professor Andrew Lear
Saturday June 26 2 pm Pride special—More LGBTQ History of Greenwich Village: the East Village, and the far West, with Professor Andrew Lear
Saturday June 26—Pride 2021 2 Greenwich Village tour package deal, with Professor Andrew Lear
Wednesday July 21 7 pm—LGBTQ+ Secrets of the Metropolitan Museum, with Professor Andrew Lear
Tuesday August 24 7 pm—What Makes an Artwork Queer? LGBTQ+ Art at MoMA, with George Benson
Sunday October 3: I Left My Heart in San Francisco: LGBT+ SF Before Stonewall, with Jim van Buskirk
Sunday October 10: Marlene Dietrich, Queer Icon, with Brendan Nash
Sunday October 17: When Paris Was For Lesbians: the Women Who Made Modernism, with Dr Sandra Langer
Sunday October 24: Developing Muscles: the Gay Side of Early Photography, with Zorian Clayton
Sunday October 31: Fright Night at the Metropolitan Museum, a Halloween Tour, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday November 7: A Colorful History of Hockney, with George Benson and Dan Vo
Sunday November 14: Like a Virgin: Venice’s LGBTQ+ History, with Valerio Coppa
Sunday December 5: The Loves of Oscar Wilde, with Neil McKenna
Sunday December 12: Was Shakespeare Bi? A Fresh Look at the Sonnets, with Dr Paul Edmondson
Sunday December 19: The LGBTQ+ Tour of the Harlem Renaissance, with Corey Serrant
2022
Sunday January 16: Queer Brooklyn, from Walt Whitman to Factory Butches, with Hugh Ryan
Sunday January 23: Decoding the Closet in American Painting: Thomas Eakins, Charles Demuth, and Grant Wood, with Ignacio Darnaude
Sunday January 30: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World, with Professor Gregory Woods
Sunday February 6: Beck’s List: a Gay Jewish Hero in Nazi Berlin, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday February 13: Valentine’s Day with Gay Greek Love Myths, with Sebastian Hendra
Sunday February 20: America’s Greatest Gay Photographer, George Platt Lynes—and his Fabulous Nudes, with Allen Ellenzweig
Sunday February 27: Unhung Heroes of the Metropolitan, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday March 6: Fair Harvard—and her Rich LGBTQ+ History, with Russ Lopez
Sunday March 13: Notorious Newport: booty, murder, and mansions, with Michael Henry Adams
Sunday March 20: 10 Unknown Great Gay Artists, with Professor Andrew Lear
Sunday March 27: The Einstein of Sex: “Auntie” Magnus Hirschfeld, the Institute for Sexual Research, and LGBTQ+ Berlin in the 1920s, with Finn Ballard
Sunday April 3: Frida Kahlo, Queer Icon, with George Benson
Sunday April 10: Queer Years on the Hudson Piers, with Joshua Lubin-Levy