Behind the Scenes of T Magazine’s Cover Shoot
nytimes.comOn a hot day in early August, 24 people gathered in a studio space in Red Hook, Brooklyn. They all had something in common: All of them were artists.
They were also all Black, queer and 40 or younger. Four of T’s editors were on set, and they later reported what we would hear from the participants themselves — that the mood was electric; that the camaraderie was genuine.
Not all of them had met before, and yet there was a sense of reunion anyway, the feeling that they recognized one another; an actual previous encounter was a mere technicality.
On the Covers The shoot was the (years in the making) brainchild of the polymathic artist and frequent T contributor Shikeith, who was inspired to pay homage to the filmmaker Marlon Riggs’s groundbreaking 1989 documentary, “Tongues Untied,” a paean to Blackness, maleness, gayness and the community and affinity that exist among and between Black gay men.
