On October 23, 2021, artists Jess T. Dugan and David Antonio Cruz, both featured in The Outwin: American Portraiture Today, joined Amber Johnson, professor of communication and social justice and associate provost, division of diversity and community engagement at Saint Louis University, to discuss representing friends, family, and activists in the queer community, as well as how the artists’ work disrupts the traditionally heteronormative genre of portraiture by centering queer bodies and queer intimacy.