Pride Month 2025

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Siiri Viljakka’s Curiosity

The Finnish illustrator reflects on the queerness found in art and nature.

“My Friends Gave Me Their Love”: Remembering New York City’s AIDS Crisis Together

Join Lola Flash and five friends as they reminisce about art and community when the AIDS epidemic tore through NYC in the 1980s and ’90s.

Create the World You Don’t Have Access To

The artist P. Staff describes what moves them about the dolls, diaries, and dancing of downtown New York legend Greer Lankton.

Forrest Bess: A Fisherman Artist’s Spiritual Abstraction

Art historian Cyle Metzger speaks about his personal, profound attraction to Bess’s work.

Exploring Community Action Center

Art critic and Le Tigre cofounder Johanna Fateman revisits a video love letter to queer sex, politics, and music.

Private Space on the Public Street: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Bed Billboards

Gonzalez-Torres’s Projects exhibition, at MoMA and on billboards around New York City, bridged the gap between art and life.

Reynaldo Rivera’s Fistful of Love/También la belleza

The artist talks about learning to freeze fleeting moments, the influence of music and movies, and how his life’s work is also a search for love.

Magazine Podcast

How Art Is Helping Teens Find Their True Selves

Hear from current and former teens about their experiences of growing up queer.

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Mannie Murphy’s Like a Lighthouse

The comics artist celebrates the friendship of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

What to Do When the World’s on Fire: A Conversation with Catherine Opie

The acclaimed artist talks about the photograph that made her a photographer, her philosophy around portraiture, and queer liberation.

Magazine Podcast

Ten Minutes with Monét X Change: On Drag

The winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars reflects on how drag changes us for the better.

Hyundai Card Video Views

Carlos Motta’s We Who Feel Differently: On Trans Politics and Visibility in the Last Decade

In this exclusive two-week screening, artist Carlos Motta speaks with activist Chase Strangio about fighting for trans rights and autonomy.

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Tommi Parrish’s Snake Pit

Take a tour through an imaginary exhibition exploring the life of a queer artist.

UNIQLO ArtSpeaks

Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Flag

How does a flag become a beacon for belonging and community?

Flashback to 2015: MoMA Acquires the Rainbow Flag

In celebration of Pride Month, read an interview from 2015 with the late Gilbert Baker, creator of the iconic Rainbow Flag.

Queer Highlights

17 audios

Agosto Machado’s New York

In honor of World AIDS Day, the artist and activist speaks to filmmaker Tourmaline about his work and the city’s queer history.

“Driving through Fire,” by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

In a newly commissioned poem, Espinoza meditates on the body—and its survival.

Fighting for Equality Amid War

LGBTQ+ activists discuss the risks and challenges facing Ukraine’s queer population.

Magazine Podcast

David Wojnarowicz and the Power of Connection

Author Olivia Laing speaks about the visionary artist’s mission to assuage isolation and shame through his work.

Violet Chachki on the Art of Drag

The drag superstar talks about queerness, families, and her tribute to the transgressive artist Pierre Molinier.

UNIQLO ArtSpeaks

Arlette Hernandez on Alvin Baltrop’s Untitled

Baltrop’s photos preserve long-disappeared spaces where LGBTQ+ communities could enjoy a sense of belonging.

Magazine Podcast

Black Trans Futures

Activists and organizers trace the origins of a historic march for liberation...and imagine where we go from here.

Artist Project

Anything We Want to Be: Tourmaline’s Salacia

The artist’s film imagines riotous transwomen across history.

Resources

Working for Black Trans Futures

An incomplete list of resources and organizations for combatting racism and transphobia, and supporting justice, safety, and equality

Can You Imagine A Day Without Art?

An activist and MoMA educator recalls a momentous museum response to the AIDS crisis.

Magazine Podcast

What’s in a Name?

Words are personal in Catherine Opie’s photograph Dyke.

Radical Joy

Writer and art historian Alex Fialho discusses the queer energy of Keith Haring’s epic Untitled.

Come As You Are: A Space for LGBTQ Teens and Art

Teens share their thoughts on art and what it means to create safe, celebratory spaces for LGBTQ communities.

Staff Picks

Celebrating Pride

MoMA staff consider the impact LGBTQ+ individuals have had on history via works from the collection.