Zooming Through Queer Culture

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Yearning for a dose of LGBTQ history and culture?  Welcome to Oscar Wilde Tours’ new project, 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.  Join our founder Professor Andrew Lear and his colleagues from across the cultural sector for a series of LGBTQ tours of cities and museums, beamed directly to your computer via Zoom.  We will bring queer culture direct to you from institutions such as the Met,  MoMA, The Whitney, and British Museum, as well as LGBTQ history tours of Greenwich Village, Hollywood, and Paris’ Père Lachaise Cemetery (where among many other greats, Oscar Wilde and Gertrude Stein are buried)—and much more!

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:

 

 

 

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, with Allen Ellenzweig

Sunday February 27:  “Unhung Heroes” of the Metropolitan Museum, with Professor Andrew Lear

Sunday March 6: Fair Harvard—and her Rich LGBTQ+ History, with Russ Lopez

Sunday March 13:  Notorious Newport:  Gay Tales Booty, Murder, and Mansions in the Gilded Age’s #1 Playground, 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 LGBT+ Berlin of 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

Sunday May 1:  Gay Secrets of the Metropolitan, Unabridged, with Professor Andrew Lear

Sunday May 8: Crazy Little Thing Called Freddie Mercury, with Dan VoThe Danish Girl, and the First Trans Emancipation Movement, with Finn Ballard

Sunday May 15: The First Queer Politics:  Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in 19th Century Britain, with Professor Charles Upchurch

Sunday May 22:  The “Danish Girl” and the World’s First Trans Emancipation Movement, with Finn Ballard

Sunday June 12:  A Special Pride LGBTQ+ Tour of Greenwich Village, from Walt Whitman to Wigstock, with Professor Andrew Lear

Sunday June 19:  Black Gay Hero of the Civil Rights Movement:  the Life of Bayard Rustin, with Professor John D’Emilio