Gender is fluid. (Picture: Daniel Arzola)

Daniel Arzola is an artist and activist from Venezuela, who’s tackling LGBTQ prejudice in the best way he can.

In his series of illustrations, titled ‘No Soy Tu Chiste’ (‘I’m Not Your Joke’), Arzola smacks down common stereotypes and messages of intolerance, using striking colour and portraits of people from the LGBTQ community along with written statements of LGBTQ pride.

‘When you turn the TV on, being gay is just a joke,’ Daniel told Mashable. He says he wants to use his artwork ‘as a method of nonviolent action to change mentalities, to empathize, to create visibility’.

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)

He says: ‘It’s a different way of confronting social issues, because you handle a different structure where you can appeal to feelings before reason, in this way, emotions allow you to connect to the cause.




‘I think we all have something to say, and we all can change something through nonviolent action.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)

‘If diversity bothers you, you were born on the wrong planet.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)



‘Drag is art. Trans is life.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)



‘Those who are insulted by femininity must believe being a woman is offensive.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)



‘Homosexuality is documented in over 500 species. Homophobia only in one.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)



‘If I won’t define myself, you won’t define me.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)



‘My sexuality is not a trend. Your ignorance seems to be.’

(Picture: Daniel Arzola)

You can see more of Daniel’s artwork over on his Tumblr.

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