To celebrate Pride 2025 the Ely Center for Contemporary Arts and the New Haven Pride Center partner to launch MUSCLE, an intermedia exhibition of artworks by local and regional artists featuring the vitality of the LGBTQIA+ community.  

These works articulate social power.  They are evidence of both personal and collective gains made through determination, will, and grit.  They remind us of voluminous resistance to adversity alongside the constant, quiet, domestic assertion of an authentic life.  They illustrate the transmutability of our bodies and our bodies politic.  They demonstrate lives lived openly, freely, and truthfully.  They are tinged with past violences and future threats.  They demonstrate the diversity of our community while speaking to our solidarity, our shared vision, and our united desires.  They invite us to play with each other, to work together.