LGBTQIA+ Pride Month
Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month at The Met this June with art, talks, and more.
Events
Welcome summer and celebrate Pride month on June 7 with a celebration of radical love featuring music spanning more than nine centuries, featuring members of the Brooklyn collective ChamberQUEER!
On June 14, enjoy a queer ritual-recital that reimagines medieval laments and ecstasies as living expressions of desire, grief, and devotion.
Join bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry on June 21 as she plays a solo set of experimental ambient music inspired by gospel, electronic, and jazz.
On June 27, enjoy a lively evening of art making, chats, and community gathering in celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month.
On Tuesday and Thursday in June (excluding June 10 and June 19), children 18 months to 6 years are welcome to enjoy books celebrating LGBTQIA+ art.
Every Tuesday and Saturday in June, Met Members are invited to celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month with tours that explore the subjects, voices, and narratives found in the over 5,000 years of art.
Highlights
To commemorate Pride Month, follow this digital itinerary of works in The Met collection by, or depicting, artists from the LGBT community.
Read, Watch, and Listen
Learn more about the Asian American and Pacific Islander artists that shaped art history through Perspectives.
Curator Deniz Beyazit speaks with the artist Peter Hristoff about the role of history, Orientalism, and gender in his artistic practice.
Join the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and The Met to learn about queer artists who have called the city home.
Art
See work by LGBTQIA+ artists across the Museum.
On view in gallery 910, Marsden Hartley’s monumental painting is an abstract portrait of Karl von Freyburg, a Prussian lieutenant whom the artist loved and who died in World War I.
Doron Langberg’s scene of homoerotic intimacy, on view in gallery 915, is a deeply moving tribute to queer life.