Meet me in San Antonio on May 28th. I’m receiving the the Millia Davenport Publication Award for A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk from the Costume Society of America at their annual symposium.

Published in conjunction with the Museum at FIT exhibition of the same name, the book includes seven essays by some of the world’s most acclaimed scholars of gay history and fashion, presenting a provocative look at the history of fashion through a queer lens. It examines high fashion as a site of gay cultural production and explores the aesthetic sensibilities and unconventional dress of LGBTQ people to demonstrate the centrality of gay culture in the creation of modern fashion.