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Kristen Eichamer holds a Project 2025 fan in the group's tent at the Iowa State Fair, Aug. 14, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump. The Project 2025 effort is being led by the Heritage Foundation think tank. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Project 2025 and LGBTQ+ Americans

Tom Hall

Charles Kaiser is the author of The Gay Metropolis and a writer for The Nation. His recent reporting covers the potential consequences of Project 2025 for LGBTQ+ Americans.

A mixture of memoir, biography, criticism, and social history, Touching the Art is queer icon and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s interrogation of the possibilities of artistic striving, the limits of the middle-class mindset, the legacy of familial abandonment, and what art can and cannot do. Photo: Provided by MBS

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'Touching the Art' author explores her grandmother's love and denial

Sheilah Kast

We go On the Record with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore to ask what she weaves into her new book about her grandmother’s abstract expressionism; about white flight from Baltimore; about anti-gay stigma — and why art is never just art.

Amos Badertscher's "West$Side Bill #1," taken in Baltimore in 2001.

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Amos Badertscher's snapshots of his Baltimore. Plus, aging with pride.

Sheilah Kast

We go On the Record to learn about Amos Badertscher’s photography capturing Baltimore street life of the 60s, 70s and beyond. His work documented the grit and beauty of queer youth. Plus, a support group for queer elders and their concerns.