Thomas Block Rubnitz (April 2, 1956 – August 12, 1992) was an American painter, video artist, and AIDS activist. He was a part of the New York City drag world of the late 1980s, and he has been described as "an exuberant ethnographer of the East Village queer scene."

In "Listen to This," Tom Rubnitz, weaves narration, image, and a form of temporality, dislocated from ‘real time’, into a video where artist and AIDS activist David...

“Community Drag Theater”—an outdoor screening organized by UnionDocs, Visual AIDS, and Video Data Bank—collects ten years of work by the hallucinogenic gay video maker and drag impresario Tom Rubnitz.

Come out under the stars for our first outdoor Summer Screening and behold a lively night of Community Drag Theater celebrating the dynamic and moving work of the legendary Tom Rubnitz and in partnership with the wonderful folks at Visual AIDS.

1992年8月12日 · Painter and video-maker who worked with David Bowie and the B-52's. -- Contributor K.

A quintessential New York underground film/video artist, the late Tom Rubnitz took a bite out of the Big Apple and spat it out in a wild kaleidoscope of unequivocal camp and hallucinogenic color. Ann Magnuson, the B-52s, The “Lady” Bunny, and the late John Sex are but a few of the stars that shine oh-so-brightly in Rubnitz’s glittering ...

The video works of Tom Rubnitz (1956-1992) embodied the ‘80s downtown New York drag and performance scene for over a decade before his untimely AIDS-related death in 1992. Deftly parodying TV culture and fearlessly standing up to homophobic governmental policies, they draw us in with their infectious cartoonish sheen before getting under our ...