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Damian Alexander

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from Publisher’s Weekly, November 5th 2018

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12/30 of my LGBTQ icons illustrations series is Alison Bechdel! 🏳️‍🌈 Comic artist known for her award winning graphic novel Fun Home, which was later adapted to the Tony winning musical of the same name. The Bechdel Test, commonly used in feminist film studies is derived from one of her comics. 🏳️‍🌈 Each day through June I will be posting an illustration of someone I believe is doing important things within the LGBTQ community! 🏳️‍🌈

@theebillyporter’s outfit for the Tony’s made him the obvious choice for 10/30 of my Pride 2019 Illustration series! Known for his work on the TV series Pose and his Tony Award winning role in Kinky Boots on Broadway. He’s recently become known for his glamorous gender-fluid outfits at the Met Gala and Oscars. He told USA Today: “I’m completely free of the chains that bound me earlier in my career. I’ve been hired for my authenticity … And that has not always been the case. One of the reasons why I haven’t been on many sets is because who I am and what I represent was not a story people wanted to hear or tell for a very long time.”

9/30 is @lavernecox! 🏳️‍🌈 She is an LGBTQ and gender equality advocate, with numerous awards and honors, along with being the first openly transgender actress to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role on Orange is the New Black. ✨

8/30 is @gayrodcon! 🏳️‍🌈 Author of Boy Erased: A Memoir about his experience in surviving an LGBTQ conversion camp, which was adapted into a movie last year, providing a first-hand account of the trauma these camps cause LGBTQ youth.

7/30 of my Pride 2019 Illustration series is @dylanmarron ! 🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ activist, and public speaker behind series like Every Single Word, Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, and Conversations With People Who Hate Me. 🏳️‍🌈 Each day through June I will be posting an illustration of someone I believe is doing important things within the LGBTQ community! 🏳️‍🌈

6/30 of my LGBTQ icons Illustration series is @ellenpage! 🏳️‍🌈 Known for her acting roles in Juno and recently Umbrella Academy. With her Vice series Gaycation she traveled around the world visiting different LGBTQ communities and cultures. She regularly uses her platform to speak openly about LGBTQ rights and representation. 🏳️‍🌈

5/30 of my Pride Illustration series is @nicosantos , who plays Mateo on one of my favorite comedy TV series @nbcsuperstore ! 🌈 His character adds a lot of diversity to contemporary LGBTQ TV characters, being working class, openly gay, Filipino, and an undocumented immigrant. Mateo’s latest story arc left me shaken.

4/30 of my of my Pride Illustration series is @rebeccasugar, creator of the acclaimed animated children’s TV series Steven Universe! The series is known for its positive representation of LGBTQ characters and won the @GLAAD award in 2019 for Outstanding Kids & Family Program, making it the first animated series to receive the award. 🌈✨

3/30 of my LGBTQ icon series for Pride is @thejeffreymarsh! 🏳️‍🌈 Non-binary icon, advocate and public speaker who regularly delivers kind and affirmative messages for trans, nonbinary and LGBTQ identified folks on social media. 🌈✨

2/30 of my LGBTQ icon series for Pride is @janellemonae! 🏳️‍🌈 In Rolling Stone she mentioned identifying as bi initially “but then later I read about pansexuality and was like, ‘Oh, these are things that I identify with too.’ I’m open to learning more about who I am.” I think a lot of LGBTQ people can relate to her music and her message! I combined elements from two of her outfits in this illustration...I just love so many of them.

1/30 🏳️‍🌈The fab 5 from Queer Eye @jvn @antoni @karamo @tanfrance @bobbyberk ! I couldn’t pick just one person to start out my LGBTQ icon illustrations for #Pride2019 so I went with all 5 of them! 💁🏻‍♂️ This month I’m going to be doing an illustration each day of someone(s) who I think are important to the LGBTQ community! Celebrities, artists, public speakers, social media influencers, musicians, and so on! Have an idea for who I should do next? Leave them in the comments! ☺️

This is my new Pride 2019 design! I’m really happy with how it came out! 🏳️‍🌈 Now available on t-shirts, totes, and more! See the TeePublic link in bio. • • • • Queer is an interesting word cause many LGBTQ people today use it as an umbrella term if they are two or more identities under the LGBTQ acronym. Though for some it has negative connotations, especially with older generations. It’s since been “taken back.” I’ve never been called queer negatively. Bullies around me used phrases like “You’re so gay!” Or slurs like “F*ggot!” As I got older I responded with “Yes, and?” Kids who were open and nice to me usually identified as queer, so for me queer became a term of endearment. 🌈💁🏻‍♂️ [If you’d like to repost my artwork, please make sure to tag me directly beneath the post. Thank you! ☺️]

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