New Chicago art exhibit celebrates city’s history of queer activism

New Chicago art exhibit celebrates city’s history of queer activism

Among the many highlights of a new exhibit on queer activism at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago are Faysal Altunbozar’s exceptionally phallic ceramic bird feeders with nylon straps. The feeders, created in 2020, are a winking tribute to Monroe Park Bird Sanctuary, a place adopted by birders for bird watching and simultaneously by the gay community for cruising. The cruisers dressed (or undressed) carefully to be seen; the birders we…