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COMMENTARY: THE REAL LSON OF ‘BROS’: IT’S OK TO LET GAY ART BOMB

Summary of Queer ArtAny art that n be nsired "queer" refers to the re-appropriatn of the term the 1980s, when was snatched back om the homophob and opprsors to bee a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the experience of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people. Sce the late 19th century, cultural and legal rpons to homosexualy have evolved, but was only the send half of the 20th century that many of the laws crimalizg homosexual acts were overturned.

It wasn't until the late 20th century that homosexualy was no longer nsired a pathology by psychiatrists, and wasn't until the 21st century that marriage rights were granted to same-sex upl.

Key Ias & Acplishments Bee of the early crimalizatn of homosexual acts and the social stigma nnected to homosexualy, much Queer Art employs d visual language that would not aroe spicn among the general public but would allow those faiar wh the trop of the subculture to glean the hidn the rise of activism the wake of the Civil Rights protts and the AIDS epimic, Queer Art beme more ank and polil s subject matter, forcg the viewers to regnize queer culture and to unrsre the stutnal equi and hypocrisy that fueled Inty Polics surroundg Queer Art has sparked much bate, wh some artists embracg Inty Polics and other chewg as not important for their work. It was spired by late 19th-century photographs by Eadweard Muybridge of two men wrtlg, but here the tangled sheets atop the bed make the homosexual meang clear. Howe says, "Ban was probably aware that he was buildg upon athetic trop of classil wrtlg ed sce the neteenth century as ver emblems of homosexualy..

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Queer theorist Cathere Howe explas that Hockney often borrowed imagery om physique magaz, which while ostensibly about men's sports were terg to homosexual men. Mapplethorpe's photography pictg still lif of flowers, celebry and Royal Fay portraure, and pictur of children are well-loved, but his powerful and subversive imag of homoerotic subjects are most notable their power to dramatilly alter perceptns and ph boundari. It was work that ptured social change real life and brought the gay experience to the light for all to see - enuragg members of the gay muny to e out of the shadows.

Mapplethorpe policized the physil body; he ed imag of the body to reassert his and other gay artists' right to exhib imag of the gay experience public view. Gelat silver prt - Los Angel County Mm, USA 1979Gay LiberatnArtist: Gee Segal In this work, two life-size upl are relaxed each other's pany the public space.

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The work is placed a park, oppose the Old Stonewall Inn, a gay bar Greenwich Village and the se of the Stonewall rts 1969 - one of the most important events the gay liberatn movement. This piece however plac back the realm of the ordary, the fal le remdg the viewer that gay love is as physil as heterosexual sire. Later, she wanted to prent ordary pictur of queer life as a retort to the notn that the gay liftyle was somehow viant, and dog so she produced sightful and timate portraure that has been wholly absent om mastream media.

She looked at how the gay experience impacted genr norms, askg for example, why do some butch lbians who bee parents bee "dads" and others bee "moms"? Chromogenic photographic prt - The Guggenheim Mm, New York Begngs of Queer ArtBefore 1861, the ath penalty existed for people nvicted of gay sexual acts England and Wal.

"A discsn of the queer experience relatn to art history n beg 1870 when for the first time a paper by German psychiatrist Carl Friedrich Otto Wtphal nsired the experience of "ntrary sexual feelg" which two people were alg wh what would later e to be known as homosexualy. He wrote the History of Sexualy (1976), "The sodome had been a temporary aberratn; the homosexual was now a speci, " htg at a future where the queer experience would bee an important branch of Inty s later, 1895, the Brish thor and playwright Osr Wil was sent to prison for two years after he was nvicted of sodomy, and the trials helped shape an emergent inty of the homosexual artist.