Jay Toole News Today

We punish people in this country for being poor and we punish homosexuality. When both are combined, it does more than double the effect.

Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison makes a compelling case for abolition as a central part of queer politics.

Divas With a Twist Will be performing at the Music Room in Yarmouth on July 23. The start time is 8 PM.

In his book The Womens House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the 60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.

The queer elder lived in Washington Square Park after being kicked out of the house at 13.

Tourmaline, Morning Cloak, 2020, dye sublimation print, 29 1/2 × 30. OVER NEARLY two decades of political organizing, archival research, writing, and art-making, Tourmaline has demonstrated that abolition, Black trans liberation, and abundant pleasure are interwoven, inseparable projects. In her first solo exhibition, “Pleasure Garden,” up through January 31 at Chapter NY’s Madison Street pop-up location, Tourmaline debuts a series of five photographic self-portraits alongside Salaci...