The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a still-growing piece of public art where people can commemorate via quilt squares loved ones lost to the disease. It further explores the impact of gentrification and a changing city on the bar's patrons, who are predominantly working class, Hispanic, and immigrant. American conceptual artist Glenn Ligon provided an artistic response that critiqued both the conservative ideology that stoked the culture wars and Mapplethorpe's problematic imagery of queer black men. Zanele Muholui is a South African artist whose photobook, Faces and Phases, presents portraits of black lesbian women, trans-men, and gay men, who are resisting homophobia, queerphobia, and transphobia, or who may have also fallen victim to "curative rapes" and/or murder.

Ellis was a eugenicist, but his study of gay and transgender sex trumps his desire to weed out the weak, which goes unmentioned. My heroes are ordinary Russian guys who can be found anywhere -- in a bar, at a construction site, in a forest and, of course, in a Russian bathhouse. The wives and children of the two men are shown in the tomb as well, but less prominently featured than Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep’s relationship. The painter Simeon Solomon, whose drawing The Bridge, the Bridegroom and Sad Love shows

An examination of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's portrait shows that the queer experience is not limited to people from homosexual backgrounds. Newspapers and the right wing press had aggressively presented gay love as a dangerous perversion, particularly during the AIDS crisis. In this way, her work aligns with the trajectory of Feminist art, whose goal, as artist Suzanne Lacy declared, was to "influence cultural attitudes and transform stereotypes. Gengoroh Tagame, Japanese "bara-manga" artist legend, is known for his erotic hyper masculine art works and stories. Activist groups were a significant source of advocacy for legislation and policy change, with, for instance, the formation of ACT-UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power in 1987.

The kissing men in the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel are likewise relevant as representations of queer desire as well as Michelangelo’s concern for his soul. This became a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the LGBT+ community, and the riots are widely considered to constitute one of the most important events leading to the gay liberation movement. Lastly, limiting queer art too closely within the contexts of US and UK events excludes the varied practices of LGBT+ individuals beyond those geographies, as well as various conceptions of queerness across cultures.With the rise of activism in the wake of the Civil Rights protests and the AIDS epidemic, Queer Art became more frank and political in its subject matter, forcing the viewers to recognize queer culture and to underscore the institutional inequities and hypocrisy that fueled homophobia. Displayed in the past at the New Orleans Old Mint Museum as part of the exhibition, titled: Soul of the South: Selections from the Gitter-Yellen Collection.

In his recent art piece Wallflower , posted during Pride Month, Osinachi depicts a gender-fluid person dressed in a bright pink dress covered in flowers. Gary Lee was the first Indigenous person to collaborate with the Northern Territory AIDS Council, and he is a friend and collaborator to Hodge. Queer activist art, through posters, signs, and placards, served as a significant manifestation of queer art from this time.And when Lord Leighton’s painting appeared at the Royal Academy in 1869, what’s more, the Times noticed another anomaly.

Critic Liz Kotz wrote of Opie's work that "there is no text, no artist's statement, and a refusal to read and hence 'frame' these images for the viewer. As right wing, conservative and religious groups tried to suppress the queer voice in public, a new anti-authoritarian political and cultural wave began. When Linardis isn’t painting queer, trans, and hetero intimacy, he paints abstract figures—dark blue wavy lines with lucid white brush indents that look similar to stars in a galaxy .The show exhibited 22 artists from Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Singapore with a total of 51 artworks. The books and articles below constitute a bibliography of the sources used in the writing of this page.