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Taiwanese-American artist Shu Lea Cheang broke out with her first feature film ‘Fresh Kill’ in 1994, while she was living and working in New York’s Lower East Side. The film pioneered a genre, sci-fi new queer cinema, which Cheang has been working in ever since. In 2000, she released the film ‘I.K.U.’ — a hardcore retelling of Blade Runner — in which shapeshifting cyborgs collect “orgasm data” from residents of New Tokyo through penetrative sex. Legend has it 40 percent of the audience walked out of its Sundance premiere. Today, Shu Lea is still in the middle of it, and we caught up in a tiny pink office at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, where her latest installation ‘LOVER LOVE’ is currently on view. Cheang kept her sunglasses on as she told me about New York in the 90s, collaborating with Aérea Negrot and Paul Preciado, and laughing through grim times. 

At a time when identity politics seem to be going out of fashion, artist Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo — better known as Puppies Puppies — is identitymaxxing. For more than a decade she’s gone all-out, filling gallery spaces around the world with what others might see as clichés from Grindr masks to trans flags, stenciling the words “TRANNY” and “SHEMALE” on gallery walls, and performing as the Statue of Liberty or even Spongebob Squarepants. This weekend, her latest show ‘Kleidung’ takes over Galerie Kandlhofer for Vienna’s gallery festival. Art writer and trans intellectualite P. Eldridge says, ‘Looking across her practice, I find myself thinking less about identity than about circulation: how meanings move between bodies, images, fantasies, and public life.’ Naturally, P. checked in for a quickie. Let’s go!

Whatever you might think WHOLE Festival is or isn’t, the unhinged playground has got something for every type of queer, not least the backbone of our community – dykes, of course! After years hosting pop-up events out of the back of a rented van, London-based collective Uhaul Dyke Rescue rolled up to the Ferropolis to build their iconic Uhaul Dyke Beach Bar. And what better way to out-muscle the thousands of muscle gays at WHOLE than a weekend of competitive bar sports? We checked in with Lucy Nurnberg, who founded it together with Ali Wagner, for an oiled-up quickie.

We asked, you delivered. A bunch of thirsty sapiosexuals came through with their summer reading tips after a call out in our BUTT Club newsletter last month, from nightstand staples in California to the best beach-friendly poetry for showing off on an island paradise.

23-year-old Lukas Brull from Toronto makes what he calls “twee pop music” under the name Grumpy Truck. His songs with catchy titles like Choke Me Out and Being Gay Is So Lonely! naturally grabbed our attention…or was it all the shirtless pics on his Instagram? Either way, we caught up with him for a Quickie!

Colombian artist Juan Betancurth has a few zany kinks…not least his fixation for tableware. He tells us ‘I have a particular attraction to household objects, and dishes can certainly become a part of good play. I once had an affair with a tower fan, until it broke during the action. It was a very hot summer – what a loss.’ 

Check out this human dish rack, somewhere between functional and fetish object, modeled here by a Brazilian friend who came over to his studio to try it on. Juan sent in this video as part of our one-weekend-only exhibition curated by Bruce La Bruce, and we wanted to share it again to see if there’s any fellow dish-heads out there. Anyone?

Last year, the Trump administration removed the big ol’ rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York amidst a nationwide crackdown on what can and can’t be flown on Federal sites. The ensuing shitstorm showed how the memory of Stonewall still carries political weight, even if storytelling around ‘who threw the first brick’ can feel played out. Yes, ‘Stonewall was a riot’, but it was also mix-y bar with its own culture and – like any good spot to catch a drink and a kiss – good music. 

Thankfully, queer-history-obsessed deejay Chris Cruse has hunted down hundreds of songs about rebellion and love, many from queer pioneers of the 60s, that may have been playing there the night of the uprising. Present day icon Miss Honey Dijon then narrowed it to a selection of 100 tracks to be installed in a replica of the original jukebox at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. Presented here for your Pride-month pleasure is a shortlist of 14 tracks, accompanied by the speech Chris gave at a listening session during Berlin CSD in 2025, and again at the Queer Nightlife Community Center in NYC a couple of weeks ago. Hit it!

In ‘Barbie Dream’, Christopher Sonny Martinez transports us to a cam girl dreamworld, starring underground performance artist Rosé Hernandez as the iconic plastic doll, set to a pumping score by nightlife legend Ariel Zetina. As the narrative gradually shifts, the one-sided screen of cybersex culture fades into something much more vulnerable. Sonny tells us “I’ve considered Rosé as one of my art parents as well as my muse since we first found each other in the Chicago underground art scene. This video also captures a pivotal metamorphosis…it was through making it that Rosé began to inhabit her full-femme self more clearly. Shortly afterwards, she began her transition, evolving to embody a more self-determined ideal of beauty.” Check it out below!

BUTT lands in Venice! As our buddies Ben Miller and Huw Lemmey of ‘Bad Gays’ fame note, “with its atmosphere of rarefied aesthetic splendor, its culture of art and partying, and its maze of cruisey dimly-lit alleyways, Venice has long been a site of pilgrimage and obsession for the discerning artistic homosexual. Today, the Biennale continues to bring visitors to ‘La Serenissima’ — not least the contemporary queer, drawn by a heady, sometimes toxic mix of passion, desire and exposure offered when the world’s artistic elite come together. But, they follow in the footsteps of some of history’s most fascinating — and sometimes malevolent — art fags.”

Bruce LaBruce is curating a selection of X-rated short films at Drake’s Cruising Amsterdam on the weekend of May 1–3. The pop-up exhibition is supported by the Erwin Olaf Foundation in connection to BUTT and No Limits! Art Castle's current show ‘Cruising Amsterdam: Public Sex in the City’.

This weekend, we’re throwing a banging all-night launch party with Spectrum Waves, one of the hottest queer club nights in Paris. David Le Naour is the 31-year-old Frenchman who founded it eight years ago, together with globetrotting deejay Léa Occhi. The mega-soirée unfolds over both grunge-glamorous buildings of La Station – Gare des Mines, with a line-up that’s not to be missed. Plus lots of sexy Parisians, including David. We checked in with him first for some Spectrum lore….   

For those who don’t know Peaches personally, the Canadian electroclash musician has kept a mostly low profile in the ten years since she last released an album. For those close to her though, like ultra-gay filmmaker Matt Lambert, she’s been a loyal fixture of the queer punk scene in that sometimes gloomy German capital they both call home. If a generation of baby queers grew up being told to “fuck the pain away”, Peaches, now 59, is back with some follow-up tips on how to do so with confidence, by spreading the gospel of good lube. Her latest album, ‘No Lube So Rude’ is out tomorrow with an x-rated music video directed by Matt, filmed at a queer trailer park in Berlin with a diverse cast of freaks and face-sitters. After a quick lunchtime chat, Matt and Peaches let it all hang out in the sauna together for some pics.

In BUTT no. 37, we put out a wide open call for poetry about memorable outdoor fun. From beaches to parking lots, mountaintops to rooftops, and even on the goddamn street, we received hundreds of submissions. Wow thanks! Here are a few of our favorites...

Meet music-making Aussie “bros” 2charm. After dropping their cum-drenched music video boyfriend last year, the internet has been trying to suss out the nature of their relationship... maybe they really are boyfriends? Currently touring the US with Ninajirachi ahead of their own self-described “g00ner pop” album launch next month, we caught up with the photo booth aficionados while they were sheltering from the winter storm in their motel room on the latest stop of their tour in Dallas, Texas.

Big things coming from BUTT in 2026! It’s our 25th birthday, and the pipeline is bursting with reasons to celebrate. Come join us! Look out for a girthy new BUTT book, our very own festival, an exhibition, a print subscription and new merch. Plus, an expanded online BUTT universe. Be the first to hear about it all by signing up to our brand new monthly newsletter here.

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Muscle-worship, milking, ab-trampling, navel torture and gut punching can all be found on the horny online community, meetfighters.com. Technically the term for getting hot from fighting and contact sports is called Agonophilia, but insiders just call it a good fight. Alongside private meet-ups, there are wrestling camps for passionate punch-ups between friends and rivals all over the world. For years now, Colombian-born photographer Danny Aros has been traveling around the world for testosterone-fueled gatherings, and only recently has turned his camera to the community for his series ‘Agonophiliac’, shot between bedrooms, hotels and Camp Wrestlefest, a sexed-up camp-out for the community in Pennsylvania last summer.

Kinky Bangkok-born artist Riven Ratanavanh put their body – and their sub – at the center of a performance at our Bangkok celebration last Thursday. As BUTTendees sipped on queer cocktails, Riven put the party gimp in the corner and passed out ABC crackers. The task – spell whatever you wanted the sub to eat on the table of magazines. In a country where tourists expect Thais to serve them, Riven wants to flip the script. Before the panel and film program, the sub crawled across the table eating up words to applause, including – a favorite – “OK TO EAT C*NT”.

Before the performance, we asked Riven a few key questions, including about their recent performance inspired by the Thai devotional ritual of gilding Buddha statues. In it, Riven let the audience place gold leaf all over their lubed-up body, piece by piece.

The rumors are true… Next week, BUTT will be in Bangkok! Who better to introduce us to the sex drenched metropolis than erotic artist Oat Montien. Having grown up among sex workers, the city’s queer underbelly unravels in the Krung Thep native’s kaleidoscopic video works – one of which will be screened at the Bangkok Kunsthalle on 18 December.

Vaginal Davis is experiencing her well-earned cultural turning point, and I’m lucky enough to be spending time with her. While her social world was forged in the golden age of 1980s Los Angeles punk and performance culture, the beloved underground queer icon is no longer a star only for the in-the-know crowd. At a time when America is retrofitting itself back into fear, Vaginal Davis appears as an institutional fact. MoMA PS1 is currently presenting her archive through 2 March 2026, and has done so without taming its content. Canonized without apology. 

The terms of her life were never subtle. Born intersex to a Black Creole mother from Louisiana. A Mexican-Jewish father. And a chosen name as an act of deliberate self-mythology – a tribute to the Black Panther Angela Davis. The name alone announces almost everything you need to know before she even arrives: sexual, political, irreverent. In person, Vaginal carries a double authority. There is the matriarchal warmth and generosity of spirit that pulls strangers into her orbit without effort, packaged in a commanding physique (a towering 6'6"). From that body, language comes fast, obscene and excessive. Honesty, bravado and showmanship arrive tangled together with a humor that tightropes between sweet curiosity and total scandal. The combination is addictive. True to form, what follows does not proceed politely.