It being June, Pride Month, the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturday was a celebration of Queer community and art.

NYC Gay Men’s Chorus performs Andra Day’s “Rise Up”

The Beaux Arts Court was turned into a fair for queer figure drawing, djs and pop up markets.

Mural by Maya Hayuk

Ed and I under the Beaux Arts Court skylight

In the members lounge, a “curated” card game invited art-centered discussion.

Bertha Vanayshun hosted a Drag History tour in the auditorium, highlighting historical LGBTQ figures represented in the museum, each followed by an apropos drag performance.

Bertha Vanayshun

An introduction to Lesbian writer Natalie Clifford Barney led to the recitation of love letters from the Lesbian Herstory Archives

Read by I’m Baby.

Emi Grate

Does he require an introduction?

Harriet Tugsmen

“Marsha”, the biography of trans legend Marsha P. Johnson, is written by trans author Tourmaline.

Dev Doee

Got to include fierce suffragette Ethel Smyth

Wendy Carlos pioneered the creation of Moog Synthesizer as well as transitioning in the 1960s. She dressed in “boy drag” when filmed for a documentary on the Moog in the 1970s.

Which was the cue to give the evening’s dj, Aimee Amour, their solo.

The evening closed with a cheeky pop quiz on what was learned, with prizes to be won. The audience ended up shouting the answers for some of the more hapless contestants. All in good fun.