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Contents:
- RON DESANTIS’ VERY GAY AD: WHO MA THIS STEAMG PILE?
- THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS
- MEET THE COMEDY PATG DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT
RON DESANTIS’ VERY GAY AD: WHO MA THIS STEAMG PILE?
From gay paters like Leonardo da Vci and Andy Warhol to bisexuals like Frida Kahlo and trans artists like Lili Elbe and Jefey Cathere Jon, the rabow of great LGBTQ+ paters stretch around the world. In the last 50 years alone, Keh Harg’s drawgs have raised awarens for the AIDS crisis of the ’80s; Nan Gold’s hntg photographs of New York’s unrbelly has shed light on the queer muny; Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the public wh his graphic imag of gay sex acts, promptg a revaluatn of bety and propriety. Thk Ryan McGley’s gay kissg photographs, Juliana Huxtable‘s provotive multi-media work and Wu Tsang’s vio and performance art, to say nothg of J.
In the meantime, we’re takg you on a big gay art history tour through bohemian f, funky studs and dty mm basements to retroduce you to some well-known nam that you might not have known were queer.
David might not be homosexual, but he’s fely not heteronormative. There’s murky homoeroticism the background of an artist’s work, and then there’s “wh the ck your asshole. But he was also bold enough to pat homoerotic and homosocial scen, like Dancg Sailors.
THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS
It’s a potent and necsary remr that gay love is jt about sex, pecially nsirg how lbian upl have appeared throughout Wtern art history: eroticized, fallen, impure, wchy and bched.
When Robert Rschenberg died 2008, both the New York Tim and the Los Angel Tim “fot” to mentn one mor tail of his life their obuari: he was gay. Pavg the way for Pop, Rschenberg’s work might not openly reference his sexualy like some other artists’, but cric Robert Hugh lled Monogram “one of the few great ins of male homosexual love morn culture.
MEET THE COMEDY PATG DUO BEHD VERY GAY PAT
And wh that, we’re roundg up our big, gay art world tour. ‘Very gay’.