𝓐𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓕𝓪𝓰𝓰𝓸𝓽 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓽𝔂 Curated by Quil Lemons Exhibiting Artist -- Drake Carr, Lyle Ashton Harris, Thomas Allen Harris, Oscar yi Hou, Papi Juice, Quil Lemons, Myles Loftin, Ryan McGinley, Slava Mogutin, Juan Antonio Olivares, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Diego Villarreal, Ocean Vuong American Faggot Party is my creation—one year in the making, and the first time I’ve curated and brought something to life at this scale. It is my love letter to the queer community—a tribute, a rebellion, and a celebration. This marks my second exhibition, following the momentum of Quiladelphia, and emerges from a desire to give back to the very people who have poured life, love, and possibility into me. I would not be who I am—boldly, proudly, tenderly—without the embrace of queer kinship. This show began to take shape after a life-altering residency with Twenty Summers, where Ryan McGinley’s nomination offered me space to reflect not only on my practice but on how I wish to continue showing up: as an artist, a witness, and a friend. My generation is among the first to live outside the immediate shadow of AIDS as a death sentence, yet the echoes of loss, activism, and resistance still reverberate. American Faggot Party is built on those echoes—it honors the artists and ancestors whose fight made our joy possible. And it carries forward their legacy. Because we are still here. Still queer. Still unafraid. This exhibition is both memorial and manifesto, both sanctuary and battleground. It refuses invisibility. It insists on complexity—across race, age, body, gender, and desire. In a political climate where our rights are once again under siege, this show answers back not with silence but with celebration. This is defiance with a grin. Resistance in glitter. We, too, are proud boys—and girls and thems and none of the above. Through this gathering of works, American Faggot Party invites you to witness queer life not just as protest, but as poetry. Not only as survival, but as splendor. It is a joyous fight—and it is far from over.