Some contemporary LGBTQ Mexican and Latin American artists are subverting machismo culture, sometimes to controversial effect.
Enthusiasts can also visit the Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio Museum in nearby San Angel Inn, where the pair lived together during part of the 1930s. Besides work by Kahlo and her partner in life and art, Diego Rivera, the grounds-which can be explored via guided or self-guided tour-also feature personal artifacts including her clothing and prosthesis related to her painful affliction with polio, displays that offer insight into Kahlo's life, and a shop.
The leafy Coyoacan district's Museo Frida Kahlo, aka The Blue House is the iconic painter's former residence and has been open to the public since 1958.
One of the most architecturally stunning and iconic museums since it debuted its aluminum-tiled Planco district home in 2011, the six-floor Museo Soumaya boasts a world-class private collection of Mexican and international works, including the world's largest collection of Rodin sculpture castings (outside France).
LGBTQ History organization El Seminario Histórico LGBTTTI Mexicano is headquartered in the Women's Museum (Museo de la Mujer), which features equality-themed exhibitions, films, and workshops for the LGBTQ community.