Xavier Schipani

For many years, scholars have debated whether ’tis nobler to be a chunk son or hussy daughter. The truth is simple: Why not both? Event organizers House of Chunky Dunk and Double Virgo playfully pit themselves against the other for a party that platforms both sides of the queer experience. Music by DJs du jour Thckrtanker, Schithegod, Winona Grindr, and Sport Model invite power partiers to the dance floor, where the buxom battle it out.

Paul Cadmus was born into a family of artists on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1904. His mother, Maria, was a book illustrator, while his father, Egbert, was a commercial lithographer and a watercolorist. Neither made a fortune this way; in a 1988 interview, Cadmus recalled the lean times they had living in a tenement building, marked by bedbug bites and malnutrition. Poverty did not dissuade Cadmus from pursuing a career in the arts, though.

“I am much more interested in painting women, because woman is more decorative, and I think for me to admire woman is natural,” wrote artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi in his unpublished autobiography, now preserved in the Archives of American Art. “I paint universal woman, as I dream woman should be.” Kuniyoshi was born in 1889 in Okayama, Japan, and immigrated alone to the United States in 1906, when he was only 17.