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5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS OM ART

June 20, 2021Homosexualy and genr fluidy have appeared as subjects art for lennia, but for morn Wtern cultur, wasn’t until the late 20th century that artists uld treat such them overtly, whout fear of censorship, ostracism or even arrt. The well-documented tippg pot was June 1969, when a route police raid on the Stonewall Inn — a bar Greenwich Village known for drawg a gay, lbian and transgenr crowd — unwtgly gave rise to an ongog groundswell of LGBTQ activism.

At the time, homosexualy was illegal 49 stat, gays and lbians were barred om workg for the feral ernment, and police treated cross-drsg as a punishable crime. “Pri was a reversal of shame, and there was long shame around beg gay or genr-nonnformg. After Stonewall, om the 1970s on, art beme a safe space where overtly gay, lbian, trans, queer and nonnformg ias, subjects and imag uld be eely explored.

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The long history of homophobia the Wtern world didn’t keep homosexualy out of art, necsarily, but did drive artists to nceal their sexual preferenc behd visual s.

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