FROM METRO STREETS TO APPALACHIAN TRAILS

The Magic of DIY Drag: Delusiona Grandeur masters the art of disruption

July 11, 2025 | Art, Culture, Drag

Delusiona Grandeur redefines drag with sex work, satire, blood, glitter, and defiance.

Queer love songs and rural lineage shine in Sam Gleaves’ new release

July 8, 2025 | Art, Culture

Queer Appalachian artist Sam Gleaves explores love, roots and truth on new album “Honest.”

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Blooming in Bumfuck Nowhere: On the Work of Appalachian Artist Dustin Hall

July 3, 2025 | Art, Culture

Dustin Hall’s art reclaims Appalachian memory, queerness, and grief through layered materials.

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Portals & Poems: Photographer Trish Gibson on capturing Appalachian grief

July 1, 2025 | Art, Culture

Photographer Trish Gibson captures Appalachian grief, trauma, and queer identity through film.

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‘To Thine Own Self Be True’: Kentucky Shakespeare to Debut Gender-Swapped ‘Hamlet’

June 17, 2025 Art, Culture

Kentucky Shakespeare casts non-binary actor as Hamlet, debuting first queer romance on its stage.

Black Queer Joy, Songwriting, and the Power of Intergenerational Pride with the Louisville Orchestra

June 14, 2025 Art, Culture, Sponsored Content

Louisville Orchestra spotlights LGBTQ+ voices in new Pride songwriting concert June 20.

In Western Kentucky, the Only All-Lesbian Film Festival in the U.S. Is Thriving

May 21, 2025 Art, Culture

Every Memorial Day weekend, something extraordinary happens in Paducah: queer women from across the country and around the world gather for Cinema Systers Film Festival, the only all-lesbian film festival in the United States. In a town known for quilting and riverboats, this four day celebration of lesbian filmmakers has quietly and powerfully carved out […]

Clovers: The Queer Pop Persona Redefining Performance Art in Kentucky

January 22, 2025 Art, Culture

What do you get when you pair up a documentary photographer invested in subcultures like hardcore music and wrestling with an anti-disciplinary queer artist?

Slasher movie “Horrified” filming in Lexington, Bowling Green in 2025

October 31, 2024 Culture, Art

What’s your favorite scary movie? If you’re a Kentucky queer, that answer may soon be “Horrified,” a meta-horror comedy on track to film in Bowling Green and Lexington next year. Los Angeles-based queer director and writer Mike Zara is behind the film, and it stars Hallmark superstar Aimee Teegarden, renowned for her roles in “Friday Night […]

Northern Kentucky, Cincinnati BLINK with big gay lights

October 25, 2024 Art, In-State Travel

BLINK Cincinnati brings lights and queerness to the Northern Kentucky region.

Masculinities in Art: Considering the ‘other’

August 1, 2024 Art

This story is part of ISSUE 05: Reimagining Masculinity. The magazine is available for purchase here.I struggle with understanding my own masculinity. Constantly, I am reminded in passing of my physical “unmanliness” whether it be in regards to my style of choice or how my attention to more feminine beauty regimens. I am not ashamed […]

“Monster” themed season will grace Pandora Productions 2024-25 season

July 28, 2024 Art

Tickets and season subscriptions to Pandora Productions fifth show season celebrating queerness, relationships, and love are now live. Gil Reyes, producing artistic director for Pandora audiences are in for a fun and meaningful season. The stellar “MONSTER 2024-2025” themed season presented itself naturally and organically. “We had our calendar slots set before the selection of […]

Speed Art Museum brings sense of wonder, reflection with Japanese artist’s immersive experience

July 21, 2024 Art

Yayoi Kusama takes self-reflection literally. Her immersive experience, “LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER,” offers Kentuckians 90 seconds of unbridled introspection. The room, filled with angular and spherical mirrors, also reflects the unique lens with which Kusama engages the world. Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Kusama moved to New York in 1957, where she lived and supported the […]

Chappell Roan gives “Swan Lake” in dress designed by Kentuckiana native Gunnar Deatherage

June 21, 2024 Art

After selling out Kentuckiana Pride last week, pop sensation Chappell Roan has dipped her pink pony toes back into the Kentuckiana community, however this time she worked with regional native Gunnar Deatherage on the perfect dress for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Project Runway alum took some time to chat with Queer Kentucky […]

Bowling Green born artist curates sexy, uncensored magazine for queer creatives

June 18, 2024 Art, Culture, Issue 5, Sex

photos by Brett Loudermilk I Will Follow You to BG ‘Cause That’s What Us Boys Are For In 2022, I stumbled upon an Instagram post of a sun-kissed bronze, tatted, and otteresque artist, Zain Curtis. He had recently gained notoriety from screen printing T-shirts with blood infused paint to raise awareness of the homophobic blood […]

Masculinity Through a Queer [Camera] Lens

June 5, 2024 Art

It’s a complex question that traverses the realms of politics, media, and personal identity. In today’s world, where male lawmakers legislate against women’s bodies and entire American cities are banning queerness in public, masculinity can feel overwhelmingly like an oppressive force. However, amidst this narrative, masculinity can sometimes also symbolize rebellion, strength, and provide a […]

Reimagining Masculinity: Transmission

May 30, 2024 Art

This story is part of ISSUE 05: Reimagining Masculinity. The magazine is available for purchase here. As a trans man, I’ve been asking myself for years what it means to be a man and to be masculine. This is one of the things that led me to creating this piece, which originated from the time […]

Covington’s Carnegie Theater Director offers passion and community through queer performances

May 9, 2024 Culture, Art

In case you didn’t know, Covington is bursting with queerness. From their downtown rainbow crosswalks, ever-growing queer-owned businesses sprinkled on Main Street, and flamboyant theater productions, the Northern Kentucky city is an underrated queer-friendly mecca. No one knows this better than Carnegie Theater Director and queer culture leader, Tyler Gabbard. “People are friendly here,” the […]