Thing Magazine at the Brooklyn Museum
Our very own THING Magazine is included in a special exhibition dedicated to zines produced in North America. Copy Machine Manifestos features nearly one thousand zines and artworks, from punk […]
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Nominations for the 2023 Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame
Friends of the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame is accepting nominations for the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes the professional and voluntary achievements of LGBT […]
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Joey Arias Channels Billie Holiday
Drag artist, cabaret singer, performance artist. Joey Arias was involved in New York’s performance art scene in the 1980s, appearing regularly at Club 57 and other downtown venues. During these […]
About THING Magazine
Thing magazine was founded as a platform for black LGBTQ+ life in November 1989. Robert Ford described his zine as a “black gay and lesbian underground arts journal and magazine […]
THING Spring 2022 Commemorative Issue
Get a beautiful, full-color copy of our Commemorative Issue: Celebrating the Fabulousness of THING. Purchase copies online through MagCloud.com
Serving You Realness!
House of Thing is a platform for Black LGBTQ+ arts and culture and a safe space to identify and discover one’s own fabulousness.
Subscribe Exhibition
Artists and Alternative Magazines, 1970-1995 On display December 11, 2021–May 2, 2022 at the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning in the early 1970s—as underrepresented groups were demanding new forms of […]
THING: She Knows Who She Is
Excerpts from the Chicago History Museum’s Thing magazine online exhibit at Google Arts & Culture. What is THING? Thing magazine was founded as a platform for black LGBTQ+ life. As such, […]
Thirty Years Ago, a Black Queer Zine Captured the Scene that Birthed House
by Leor Galil for the Chicago Reader, June 2021 – In February 2021, dance-music site Selector republished a list of 100 important house records taken from a 1992 issue of […]
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Robert Ford and THING Magazine Exhibition Reviewed in the NY Times
“…[Y]ou’ll certainly want to drop by the exhibition “THINGS: A Queer Legacy of Graphic Art and Play” at Participant Inc. on the Lower East Side. “Organized by Bradford Nordeen and […]
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