This was absolutely beautiful. This book celebrated queer art and support for the LGBTQ plus community. With topics, such as visibility, activism, and queer love, the reader gains deeper insight into the community. The art was absolutely beautiful and each piece had a detailed description as well. I loved the way the book was set up, the art was gorgeous, and it was also educational. The historical aspects of gay culture were presented in a beautiful way.

I'll be completely honest in saying that I skimmed through and mostly looked at the pictures! There were many that I recognized and enjoyed reading about (largely the AIDS activism ones) and many others I just learned about! I do have my preferences within art and I was hoping that this book--the parts I skimmed at least--would be helpful in illuminating aspects of art history and criticism that I've yet to learn.

Queer Art definitely succeeded in that. I also appreciated the contrast between chapters and artists and mediums featured--it very much so felt like a well-rounded collection.

This was so so interesting!!
It covered such a diverse range of queer art, artists and different mediums.

Each piece is accompanied by a short snippet of information about the artist, context and what it represents. Was informative, beautiful and powerful.

Whilst I know quite a bit about general queer history, I learned a lot from this one. It highlights so many activists and interesting queer figures I’d not come across before.

Just fascinting. Such a celebration of queer people, queer art and queer strength.

Loved it. Recommend!! I bet the physical copy will be even more stunning.


Thanks so much to netgalley for an advanced digital copy in exchange for an honest review.
Probably my favourite ARC of the year so far!

Beautiful coffee table type book containing LGBTQIA+ art, artists and their creations. Main sections include: Queer Spaces, Queer Bodies and Queer Power with smaller subsections. Each work is given a couple of paragraphs about the work and includes some of the authors interpretation. I did find some works of art that I have seen in my travels and visits to art museums but more works and artists were new to me. I can see this both for art lovers and library collections. Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group - White Lion for the temporary ARC via NetGalley and I am leaving a voluntary review.

A true celebration of Queer Art from many points of view. Giving detailed accounts of artists and influence. Laid out in a way that’s easy to follow and will encourage the reader to want to experience more artworks as the ones featured.

I am not an art connaisseur but I loved this album. I liked the moments in life portrayed and all the details mentionned. Love is art.

This was a respectful expose into the world of queer art and photography. The text was engaging too. As a member of the LGBTQ+ community myself, I was very appreciative of this collection of artworks!

Some of this book was beautiful, while some was odd, and some a little horrifying. But that's the reality of life and I truly enjoyed it. The writing was good, along with the different styles of pictures and paintings.

This book, y’all! This book! This book is life!
It is the most absolute perfection that has ever existed.
There are photos, there are drawings and paintings, there are stories and there is it alllllll and it all is queer, and it’s all alive and beautiful.
Beautiful. It. Is. So. Breathtakingly. Beautiful.

Wonderful artworks, absorbing texts. Each chapter is a gift into the beauty of being LGBTQIA+. The artworks are well-selected and the texts are refreshing to read. I’m also obsessed with the cover. Such an expansive read for queer people and allies. I was introduced to new artists that I probably wouldn’t have learned about otherwise. If you enjoy photography and art, pick up this book and you won’t put it down. Like bell hooks wrote, it’s queer “as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it”. And this book offers even more than that.

What a well-thought out tribute to LGBTQIA+ artists and their creations. I went into this read not knowing much about the curator/author of this book, but having a fascination of queer art and being able to see art that causes me to think about my life and how being part of such a strong and unapologetic community helps me to be who I am today.

Rolls-Bentley takes us through several different subject lines where she’s taken a collection of artists and highlighted their work with not only a bit of their interpretation, but hers during the heading as well. While going through this book, I found a few artists that I ended up looking up to overview and if possible follow their collections.

I look forward to seeing the finished product of this and could see it as a good coffee table art book. Thank you for your work in giving these artists a beautiful avenue to share their work.

I received this book for free for an honest review from netgalley.

Absolutely incredible. You can tell how well the photographer was in really capturing the essence of queer people.

Beautifully done book of queer art! I wish there was *slightly* less text- sometimes the volume of text takes away from the space for the art.

What a beautiful book of art and graphics across the world and the decades. Showing love and beauty of all kinds in both art, photograph and sculpture form. This is an informative view of queer art and is a beautiful discovery on every page.

This is a gorgeous and extremely well done book I’d LOVE to pour over a physical copy of. Unfortunately it was very difficult to read on my phone - because for comics (and I guess books with pictures as well) NetGalley doesn’t give you the option to send it to your Kindle, and having to constantly zoom in and out to be able to read/look at the photographs and paintings really hindered my reading experience. Still, this was so good and I’m so glad I decided to pick it up. It has so many beautiful and powerful images and a great dose of history and humanity as well. I loved that there were artists from all over the world included, most of whom I’d never heard of before. Some of my favorite art pieces from the book include:

<I>Relationship #24 (The Shadow Self)</I> by Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst, <I>Unhomeliness</I> by Whitney Chow, <I>Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)</I> by David Hockney, <I>B & P v3 </I>by Amy Sillman, <I>Blue Rug</I> by Hugh Steers, <I>Slave to the Rhythm</I> by Patrick Angus, <I>Iconic Mother Avis Pendavis and Daughter Evie, House of Chanel Ball, Marc Ballroom New York, 1990</I> by Chantal Regnault, <I>Secret Hideout of the Flamingo Gang (Abandoned Paddle Boats)</I> by Hernan Bas, <I>Big Sur</I> by Bernice Bing, <I>Two Men Dancing</I> by Robert Mapplethorpe, <I>Try n' Pull tha Rains in on Me</I> by Christina Quarles, <I>Joe and Edgar</I> by Doron Langberg, <I>Sleep </I>by Kehinde Wiley, <I>Candy Darling on Her Deathbed</I> by Peter Hujar, <I>Every Moment Counts</I> by Rotimi Fani-Kayode, <I>Untitled #5 </I>by Tessa Boffin, <I>Anton Smoking</I> by Slava Mogutin, <I>Kady and Pagan in Their Cabin</I> by JEB (Joan E. Biren), <I>you my love</I> by Ghada Amer, <I>For Love, and For Country</I> by Amy Sherald, <I>Kissing Doesn't Kill, Greed and Indifference Do</I> by Gran Fury, <I>Jenny and Zac Holding Hands</I> by Rene Matic, <I>Fonofono o le nuanua: Patches of the rainbow (after Gauguin)</I> by Yuki Kihara, <I>Jimmy Paulette on David's Bike</I> by Nan Goldin, <I>Jean and Xener </I>by Charmaine Poh, 'Fire Island Pines, Polaroids 1975-1983' by Tom Bianchi, <I>Hari Sea</I> by TM Davy, and <I>A Conduit for Joy</I> by Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

I like how this book is divided by theme and time period so you can see how things have changed over time. The art is beautiful and the subjects are often so brave. This would be great as a gift book and for library collections, or as a coffee table book.
Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

This is a beautiful and informative overview of queer art, mostly contemporary, from all over the world. The prints were exquisite and the text was informative and interesting. The chapters were thematic and well thought out. I had not known about many of the artists featured in this book, and I am excited to explore more of their work. I can't wait to see this as an actual book because I'm sure the art will be glorious on the page.

I would highly recommend this to all bookstores and libraries as a wonderful addition to their art book collection.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC!

I really liked this book. I've wanted to learn more about art from different artists, and this was a good book to learn about different artists as an intro to the art world. I like the layout of the book and how each piece had an explanation and history for it. I loved the format of the book and the design of it. It was a great book to read to start to get into reading and learning about art.

This book highlights notable artists and individual artworks that have contributed to cultural framework of queer art and artists. I enjoyed the wide selection of artists that are featured with a great balance of big names and those that I was not aware of and gave me new insight and info into them. Artworks are selected from Postmodern period (1970s-1990s) as well as later Contemporary works of today. I found this nicely mixed and the categories/chapters well curated and organized. I will definitely be suggesting this to students who want to explore more about queer art and artists, and I know I myself will also reference some artists I learned about from this book in some of my lectures about Postmodern art culture.