Alan Cumming
"The Good Wife"s Alan Cumming is an unlikely insider, an actor with classical roots whose exuberant talents for singing, dancing and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/alan-cumming-adele_n_1373051.html">hamming it up</a> make him likable enough for prime time without losing him <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/alan-cumming-susan-sarandon_n_1268778.html">the throne at Manhattan society parties</a>. Cumming's most recent show of talent -- a one-man "Macbeth" run that had him <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/macbeth-review-alan-cumming_n_1661425.html">playing every one of the play's characters, including Lady Macbeth</a> -- showed he's capable of putting his multiple personalities to good use on a single stage.
Del LaGrace Volcano
Last month, gender-variant photographer Del LaGrace Volcano returned to the U.S. for his/her first ever American show, a pointed decision considering how outre Volcano's work is. In an <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2012%2F09%2F18%2Fdel-lagrace-volcano-gender-variant-photographer-exhibition-new-york_n_1891863.html&ei=QptzUITHOMnp0gH2v4GICg&usg=AFQjCNFgx5rgb0T2Jkmr8PrV--5s_gqwYw">interview with the Huffington Post</a>, the iconoclastic photographer was positive about the changing U.S. art scene: "While not always unproblematic, there seems to be a much greater willingness to see and engage with lives outside the norm."
Julie Mehretu
The gay Ethiopian Midwesterner (and now New Yorker) is known for her <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/perry-garvin/fake-interview-julie-mehr_b_682650.html">expansive, layered paintings</a>. One of the artists participating in<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/artists-for-obama-limited_n_1929583.html"> fundraising for President Obama</a>, Mehretu isn't shy about getting political with her art. In an interview with BOMB Magazine, Mehretu called her raison d'etre "<a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/91/articles/2714">our current situation, whether it be political, historical or social, and how it informs me and my context and my past.</a>"
Susan Mikula
Artist Susan Mikula may be less known than her partner, Rachel Maddow, but her work <a href="http://www.shewired.com/box-office/refined-beauty-artist-susan-mikula-finding-beauty-industry-exclusive">capturing lonely stretches of Gulf Coast beachfronts</a> showed her to be as interested in the American story as her TV pundit girlfriend. Talking to the Advocate, Mikula cited <a href="http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/photography/2011/10/22/artist-spotlight-susan-mikula">Julian Schnabel, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombley, and Gerhardt Richter among her influences</a>.
Stephen Merritt
Singer/songwriter Stephen Merritt has funneled clever, hummable songs to the world through his band The Magnetic Fields for decades. He's also been challenging concepts of gender in his lyrics for as long, a trick that played heavily in last year's "Andrew In Drag," Merritt's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/04/andrew-in-drag-video_n_1254430.html">song about a bro who falls in love with his best friend</a>.
Ojay Morgan
Artist Ojay Morgan created the character Zebra Katz as part of his senior thesis, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/fashion/zebra-katz-you-have-to-know-the-context.html">according to the New York Times</a>. That Morgan, as Katz, went on to create <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/fashion/zebra-katz-you-have-to-know-the-context.html?_r=0">the hippest song of 2012</a> isn't something he could possibly have planned in his thesis pitch. "Ima Read," a hip hop meditation on black culture, has taken on a life of its own, and we can only expect there's more to come from its <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fmusic%2F2012%2Fjun%2F09%2Fzebra-katz-rise-of-gay-rappers&ei=9phzUOSJCfLG0AHF6YC4Bg&usg=AFQjCNE8dB-O9xf8pM33UobfhYtsXh97dw">out and proud mastermind</a>.
Heather Cassils
A performance artist and body builder who played Lady Gaga's <a href="http://velvetparkmedia.com/tags/telephone-heather-cassils">prison boo in "Telephone,</a>" Heather Cassils uses her body as her canvas. Cassil's conceptual pieces are statements on gender, identity and appearance that depend on her willingness to transform herself. In <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/heather-cassils-creates-v_n_1660244.html">a recent issue of <em>Huffington.</a></em>, she told us about her current project, "Cuts: A Traditional Sculpture," involving 23 weeks of a strict weightlifting regime, steroids, and a diet fit for a 190 pound male athlete. That's commitment.
Antony Hegarty
The British artist Antony Hegarty is a triple threat: composer, singer and visual artist. His affinity for synth pop as well as his ethereal voice has made him a new favorite of the NPR crowd. Johnson is also a savvy cross-pollinator of his interests, enlisting <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/antony-and-the-johnsons-cut-the-world_n_1760727.html">Marina Abramovic to star in his devastating music video for "Cut The World,"</a> and pulling off <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EEDA1730F931A15752C0A9649D8B63">a high profile MOMA concert commission</a> earlier this year.
Camille Paglia
Earlier this summer, the curmudgeonly intellectual Camille Paglia told a Huffington Post blogger that she doesn't get along with other lesbians. "T<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-patterson/camille-pagila-interview_b_1842500.html">hey don't like me, and I don't like them," she said, </a>after discussing details of her 14 year relationship with the artist Alison Maddex. Whether you fall in the anti-Paglia camp or not, it's hard to deny that the cultural commenter is still compelling -- if increasingly absurd -- in her 60s. As she tours for her latest book, "Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars," the writer and historian hasn't been shy about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/arts/design/camille-paglia-scowls-at-the-metropolitan-museum.html?pagewanted=all">floating assertions about George Lucas' artistic pre-eminence, as well as the too-tall galleries</a> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Amos Mac
The photographer and editor has made a career of snapping friends and strangers in <a href="http://www.amosmac.com/photos/bedrooms/">slick, Terry Richardson-esque muted jewel tones</a>, while helming two significant trans publications, Translady Fanzine and Original Plumbing. In an interview with the Queerist about OP, Mac called it only "natural" for him to want to "create a space for other trans artists and [to create] events catering to people who appreciate queer art."
Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-robinson/laurie-lipton-la-is-paris_b_1666705.html">eerie black and white pencil drawings</a> are her signature trademark. The encyclopedic, gothic creations inspire comparisons to M. C. Escher, but Lipton's conscious influences (the<a href="http://eclectixetc.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/laurie-lipton-eclectix-interview-27/"> photographer Diane Arbus</a>) trend away from the illusionists, and toward style.
Zanele Muholi
<a href="http://www.zanelemuholi.com/about me.htm" target="_hplink">Zanele Muholi</a> is a South African photographer whose work has focused primarily on the black female body and its historical representation in documentary film. She has also worked as a community relations officer for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng, and as a photographer and reporter for Behind the Mask, an online magazine on lesbian and gay issues in Africa.
Richard Fung
As an openly gay video-artist born in Trinidad, the work of <a href="http://www.richardfung.ca/" target="_hplink">Richard Fung</a> investigates a broad spectrum of issues ranging from homophobia and AIDS to colonialism, immigration and Asian identity. He's also published a number of essays and teaches in the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, where he now resides.
Mickalene Thomas
<a href="http://mickalenethomas.com/" target="_hplink">Mickalene Thomas</a> is a New York-based artist known for her ornate paintings decorated with rhinestones, enamel and acrylic. Her work has been praised for representing a female perspective of same-sex desires as well as various moments of African-American culture. IMAGE: MICKALENE THOMAS, Sleep: Deux Femmes Noires, 2011 mixed media collage, 23.75 x 31.25 inches (paper)
K8 Hardy
<a href="http://www.reenaspaulings.com/WK.htm" target="_hplink">K8 Hardy</a> is a multimedia artist whose photographs, performance pieces and sculptures explore issues of class, race and gender. In her photos, she often places herself as the subject of her own work, responding to the traditional practice of male artists objectifying female models. She is also a founding member of the queer feminist journal and artist collective LTTR, and some of her work is permanently housed at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly has been an ardent explorer of color spectrums and panel paintings, dabbling in painting, printmaking and sculpting. Comparing Kelly to contemporary Jasper Johns, the Chelsea art dealer Matthew Marks who now represents Kelly told <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/arts/design/ellsworth-kelly-explorer-of-shape-line-and-color.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all" target="_hplink">The New York Times,</a> "To a great extent Jasper is a literary artist. His work is coded with secret messages. Ellsworth is purely a visual artist. With Ellsworth there is no message, just an experience."
Brian Kenny
<a href="http://briankenny.blogspot.com/" target="_hplink">Brian Kenny</a>'s art - typified by his deconstruction of American flags - explores his multiple roles as an American citizen, a supporter of the Occupy Movement, and a gay man. As he told the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/20/brian-kennys-hole_n_1612236.html" target="_hplink">Huffington Post</a>, "I'm proud to be an American and my Russian boyfriend just recently became an American citizen, but we both find it ridiculous that even after eight years together we still don't have access to collective rights as a couple that heterosexual people have in marriage. And, like many Occupy supporters, I feel discontent with the current political and economic system that allows for so much corruption and social injustice."
Vaginal Davis
<a href="http://www.vaginaldavis.com/" target="_hplink">Vaginal Davis</a> is an Amerian performing artist associated with a number of conceptual art bands and the formation of the Queer-Core Zine Movement. In Davis' performances, she portrays a range of characters that draw from her own relationships as well as fictional imaginations.
David Hockney
<a href="http://www.hockneypictures.com/" target="_hplink">David Hockney</a> is considered by many to be one of the most famous living painters in Britain, praised for his playful, pop-primitivist works. He combines cubism with a cartoonish flare to create art that has remained popular for over 30 years. IMAGE: Winter Timber, 2009 , Oil on fifteen canvases , 274.3 x 609.6 cm (each 91.4 x 121.9 cm), Private collection, ? David Hockney, Photo credit: Jonathan Wilkinson.
Adi Nes
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/22/israeli-artist-adi-nes_n_1499681.html" target="_hplink">Adi Nes</a> is a gay Israeli artist whose work, including his latest -- "The Village," explores concepts of masculinity and power. He has been praised by Richard Goldstein at the Village voice for his unique vision, who stated, "No young artist has so vividly captured the hidden cost of victory, the fine line between power and fragility, the interplay of arrogance and despair that shapes wartime identity."
Zackary Drucker
<a href="http://www.zackarydrucker.com/" target="_hplink">Zackary Drucker</a> is a transgender performance artist whose participatory pieces confront perceptions of gender and sexuality. The artist, who uses a female pronoun, has said that she envisions her work to be "a platform to exorcize my struggle with self-acceptance." IMAGE: Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, "Distance is where the heart is, Home is where you hang your heart," #13, 2011, digital pigment print, 36 x 54 in, Courtesy of Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles.
Annie Leibovitz
Anni Leibovitz is one of the most famous American portrait photographers and has captured an array of popular culture in the United States and beyond, including her infamous work for The Rolling Stones.
Breyer P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge made up the single pandrogynous entity, Breyer P-Orridge. In contrast to transvestism or transgender, their concept of <a href="http://www.believermag.com/exclusives/?read=interview_p-orridge_rushkoff" target="_hplink">pandrogeny </a>eliminated ideas of genders entirely, focusing on the union of opposites. In pursuit of this union, the two performance artists/musicians underwent a series of identical body modifications in order to transcend the binary world of gender. The ongoing experimentation spurred several mixed-media exhibitions including "Painful But Fabulous."
Jasper Johns
<a href="http://www.jasperjohns.com/" target="_hplink">Jasper Johns</a>, the famous painter of flags, maps and targets, formed a creative community in the 1950s with fellow artists Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and John Cage. The work of Rauschenberg and Jasper in particular challenged the machismo of abstract expressionism.
Laurie Toby Edison
<a href="http://www.laurietobyedison.com/" target="_hplink">Laurie Toby Edison</a> began as a visual artist who focused on jewelry and sculpture, and has since moved to photography as well. She became involved with the feminist movement when she was in her 30s, guiding her work with the "Women En Large" project and "Familiar Men," reflections on the nude in art.
Gilbert & George
<a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/gilbert_and_george/" target="_hplink">Gilbert & George</a> is the dapper collaborative duo responsible for the large scale photo works, "The Pictures." The artists' work has been both praised and criticized for its subversive and provocative content, as it explores themes of religion, sexuality, race and urban life.
Catherine Opie
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26opie.html?pagewanted=all" target="_hplink">Catherine Opie</a> is a lesbian artist whose photography examines American identity through iconic images and redefinitions of landscapes. She has investigated members of the LGBT community, surfers and football players though her documentary photography projects.
Isaac Julien
<a href="http://www.isaacjulien.com/home" target="_hplink">Isaac Julien</a> is an installation artist and filmmaker who rose to cult fame with his 1989 documentary <em>Looking for Langston</em>. Much of his work addresses black and gay identity as he attempts to break down disciplinary barriers by incorporating dance, photography, painting and sculpture in film.
Frank Ocean
Even if you've never heard a note sung by the young prodigy Frank Ocean, you might have noticed when he made the decision to come out. The thoughtfully (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rap-genius/frank-ocean-gay_b_1652237.html worded post by the hip hop star is <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/hip-hops-anti-gay-tone-frank-ocean_n_1824494.html">credited with ushering a new era for the genre</a>.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/lgbt-art_n_1950024.html
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