Celebrate 2SLGTBQIA+

Pride Flag
infomatique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

Celebrate Our 2SLGTBQIA+ Artistic Icons

Explore our gallery of trailblazing leaders in the arts who bring color to the world! In these pages, you’ll both learn more about 2SLGTBQIA+ art history and become acquainted with exciting contemporaries. Indulge your curiosity and inspire your own creativity by checking out the great art, music, and literature inside the gallery pages.

2SLGTBQIA+ is an acronym for Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and the plus reflects the countless affirmative ways in which people choose to self-identify. Our references to LGBTQ+ include the broader term as the context implies.

Get Involved!

This ASI Special event is an ongoing volunteer-led project made by people like you, using multiple educational sources regularly being revised and updated. We would love your assistance if you or your group would like to get involved!

Please Fill out our One Day Release Form 

Other 2SLGBTQIA+ Resources

Below are links to other 2SLGBTQIA+ related resources that you can look at to continue celebrating the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.

Music Playlist for Lessons

Below is a Spotify playlist featuring many of the 2SLGBTQIA+ artists on this page made for both virtual lessons and outside listening.

Inspirational Leaders

Learn about the inspiring art, music and literature of 2 Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, and plus artists. Read stories on how they found the courage to share their voices and explore themes important to our featured artists through their mediums and techniques. 

Beaford Delaney
Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
ALICE WALKER
Alice Walker by American Library Association , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, via Flickr