, curator of architecture and design at the Denver Art Museum, likes a touch of rebellion in his art: Over the years,and part of the groundswell of zines made by queer creatives starting in the early aughts—gave the young artist a chance to share his budding craft outside the strictures of mainstream media. “Zines are more of a creative expression, as opposed to a commercial endeavor,” Alfred says. “They’ve always been sort of a means of protest against censorship.” Each edition of contains images of a solitary male (the fifth issue features Sepuya’s own self-portraits), revealing a more intimate, less polished side of queer masculinity. “They represent my community,” Alfred says, “in a way that it typically wasn’t represented.”
