Out In The Streets filmed in 17 cities across 9 countries — including New York, Singapore, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Rome, Montreal, Mexico City, and Los Angeles.
Below are some of the queer street artists and activists featured in the film.
Avram Finkelstein, 2023
avram Finkelstein
Artist and activist Avram Finkelstein was one of the creators of the iconic SILENCE = Death poster, as well as a founding member of ACT UP and Gran Fury.
Hugo Gyrl, New Orleans (2018)
Hugo Gyrl, Brooklyn (2019)
HUGO GYRL
New Orleans-based graffiti writer with a witchy, almost carnival drag aesthetic that embraces themes of feminism and queer liberation.
EDES painting in Copenhagen, 2017
EDES train in Copenhagen, 2017
EDES
Copenhagen-based artist pushing the boundaries of homoerotic graffiti with explicit yet amusing vignettes.
Sam Lo, Singapore (2023)
Sam Lo mural in Singapore, 2022 (Photo by artist)
Sam Lo/ ‘SKL0’
Based in Singapore, Sam Lo/ ‘SKL0’ is a trans non-binary muralist and visual artist, who originally came to prominence with their various urban guerrilla projects.
KASHINK painting in Paris, 2017
KASHINK pasteup in Paris, 2017
KASHINK
Paris-based artist who deconstructs gender and aesthetic codes of beauty through their Street Art and graffiti.
Portrait of Aloha, Italy (2017)
Mural by Aloha in Rome (2017)
Aloha
Roman street artist Aloha creates work that often features queer friends who inspire him. Aloha's art can be found in the streets, as well as at various self-managed social centers (centri sociali), throughout Rome.
David Puck painting a mural in Brooklyn (2019)
David Puck's mural feature Miss Peppermint in Brooklyn (2019)
David Puck
Originally from the United Kingdom, Puck is a non-binary muralist who celebrates drag and gender non-conforming people as a reflection of queer values, acceptance, and a rebellion against social norms.
Suriani pasting in New York City (2015)
Bianca Del Rio by Suriani - Lower East Side, NYC (2015)
Suriani
Brazilian street artist, currently in Montreal, Suriani explores gender expression with his vibrant life-size wheatpaste portraits of drag queens and other gender nonconforming people.
Little Ricky pasting up work in Brooklyn (2019)
Little Ricky's work in Los Angeles (2019)
Little Ricky
Los Angeles based artist known for his whimsical pink SHEEP series and witty messages that celebrates queerness in a playful way.
Arty & Chikle, Mexico City (2019)
Arty & Chikle mural in Mexico City (2019)
Arty & Chikle
A gay duo from Mexico City, Arty & Chikle's work, which varies from graffiti to murals, embraces both furry and queer culture. Their mural above Metro Juárez in CDMX is one of the first gay themed mural in Mexico.
HOMO RIOT pasting in Los Angeles, 2019
HOMO RIOT in NYC, 2016
HOMO RIOT
For over a decade, this LA-based artist has used aggressive, overtly homoerotic imagery as a political tool to make viewers confront their own homophobia while instilling a sense of pride in queer people.
Jilly Ballistic at work, NYC (2017)
Jilly Ballistic, NYC (2017)
Jilly Ballistic
Brooklyn-based street artist whose work often targets advertising and the NYC subway system with pasteups and graffiti.
Mr Samo working on a mural in New York City (2019)
"You Are Loved" - mural by Mr Samo in New York City (2019)
MISTER Samo
Based in Southsea, UK, Mister Samo explores the trans experience, mental health, and the importance of visibility.
Ace Troy painting in his studio in Portland, OR (2019)
Ace Troy installing one of his pieces in Portland (2019)
Ace troy
Based in Portland, Oregon, Ace Troy's work often features a mash-up of pop culture iconography, mixed with sarcasm. In 2019, Ace announced on his Instagram account that he was a trans man.
Jeremy Novy, NYC (2019)
Jeremy Novy, Los Angeles (2019)
Jeremy Novy
For over a decade, Los Angeles-based stencil artist Jeremy Novy has been making queer themed street art with historic and homoerotic references.
Bludog10003 pasting a portrait of Klaus Nomi in NYC (2018)
Eye of Divine sticker by Bludog10003 in Portland, OR (2019)
Bludog10003
Based in New York City and Portland, Bludog is primarily a stencil and sticker artist that weaves queer icons and symbol—such as Klaus Nomi and Divine—into his work.
Paul Harfleet planting a pansy outside the Stonewall in NYC (2019)
Paul Harfleet's Pansy Project across from The Stonewall in NYC (2019)
Paul Harfleet - The Pansy Project
For nearly two decades, London-based Paul Harfleet has planted pansies around the world at sites of homophobic abuse as part of The Pansy Project.
