This Instagram caption cannot contain the magnitude of each person's (pictured here) contributions to the global artistic and cultural landscape. I can not begin to describe what it felt like being in a room of peers you deeply admire and respect, but if I had one word: ecstatic. This work was genuinely from the heart and deeply informed by the legacies of the pioneers that have influenced us all -from Marlon Riggs to James Baldwin, Lyle Ashton Harris to Essex Hemphill, Issac Julien to Rotimi Fani Kayode, Miss Tony to Big Freedia, Glenn Ligon to Kehinde Wiley, Joeseph Beam to Steven Corbin, Mark Bradford to Alvin Baltrop, Bruce Nugent to Hilton Als, Sylvester to Billy Strayhorn, and on and on and on. We are in abundance, and I hope all of this generation, pictured / or not (obviously so many incredible Black queer artists doing big things right now), continue to make more strides together like this and beyond. We up! This issue is online now at the link in the bio but get a copy for your archives at newsstands starting Sunday! • DonCHRISTIAN JONES, 32, musician and visual artist; ABDU ALI, 32, musician, writer and artist; JEREMY O. HARRIS, 33, writer and actor; JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE, 32, visual artist; MILES GREENBERG, 24, visual artist; BRONTEZ PURNELL, 40, writer and musician; DEVAN SHIMOYAMA, 32, visual artist; HUGH HAYDEN, 38, sculptor; SAEED JONES, 36, poet; JAQUEL SPIVEY, 23, actor; JONATHAN GARDENHIRE, 29, visual artist; CLIFFORD PRINCE KING, 28, visual artist; ERIC N. MACK, 35, visual artist; EDVIN THOMPSON, 29, fashion designer; D’ANGELO LOVELL WILLIAMS, 29, visual artist, SERPENTWITHFEET, 34, musician; JACOLBY SATTERWHITE, 36, visual artist; TUNDE OLANIRAN, 34, musician, filmmaker and visual artist; TROY MONTES MICHIE, 37, visual artist; TEXAS ISAIAH, age withheld, visual artist,SHIKEITH, 33, visual artist and filmmaker; DANEZ SMITH, 33, poet; ATO BLANKSON-WOOD, 38, actor; and ADAM PENDLETON, 38, painter. 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧