‘Leave the kids alone’: Controversial gay pri mural of man wearg bondage gear Sydney’s CBD faced wh pat | Sky News Atralia

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• 'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE': CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRI MURAL OF MAN WEARG BONDAGE GEAR SYDNEY'S CBD FACED WH PAT
• SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED
• FEEL AT HOME AT THE BT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS SYDNEY

'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE': CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRI MURAL OF MAN WEARG BONDAGE GEAR SYDNEY'S CBD FACED WH PAT

A ntroversial gay pri mural Sydney’s CBD has been faced followg days of divid opn among lols about s mural on Wynyard Street, loted adjacent to the tra statn of the same name, picted a man reclg on a uch mimal the batn of a leather bondage harns and the teddy bear head led some to suggt the artwork was too lewd for younger after 9:30pm on Wednday, vandals took to the mural wh purple, black and whe pat to pletely ver the YCKGay slogan wrten next to the man has also been pated over. Controversial Pri mural featurg a 'creepy' teddy bear gay bondage patg is vandalised and stroyed overnight: 'Leave the kids alone'LGBTQ+ bondage mural Sydney stroyed overnightIt featured a teddy bear wearg a bondage outf Published: 21:31 BST, 22 Febary 2023 | Updated: 00:25 BST, 23 Febary 2023. The ntroversial patg on Wynyard Street Sydney's CBD showed a hairy, overweight man wearg a leather bondage strap across his cht wh a teddy bear head as he recled on a sofa wh a beer n and a gay pri was signed to promote lol shops durg the WorldPri ftival but sparked outrage and mands for the 'creepy and sexualised' image to be removed om the view of mural was placed close to one of the cy's bit tra and b statns, also lled Wynyard.

'The gay muny worked hard for years to distance themselv om this sort of reprentatn. The enigmatic actor, art llector, gay activist, globetrotter, and doyenne of the SoHo scene has, along wh his late partner J.

Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through. This somewhat jad crew of crics was ankly awed to fd every available surface the dky, crimson Prce Street loft absolutely vered—let me repeat: vered—wh explicly homoerotic art all styl and media, cludg var se-specific murals. At the start of his and Lohman’s llectg days, more than 60 years ago, “gay imagery was unfortunately the hands of pornographers exclively, ” Llie lamented.

SYDNEY PRI MURAL OUTSI WYNYARD STATN WH 'CREEPY' TEDDY BEAR GAY BONDAGE PATG VANDALISED

Photo by Max Burkhalter for wi-rangg llectn gently illtrat the changg landspe of public gay life and the civil rights advanc crementally gaed sce he began discreetly buyg homoerotic art the 1950s. It is only the last three s that homosexualy has gaed legal protectns the Uned Stat. When the llectn began to take shape, sodomy was outlawed ( still is several stat), and gays uld be refed service at bars and other there were numerable challeng to gog about buildg such a libido, Uranian llectn.

FEEL AT HOME AT THE BT GAY NEIGHBORHOODS SYDNEY

Much like homosexualy self, gay art was hidn away—tucked the back rooms of galleri, wh entry granted by s and vert nods passed between figur who had to read the other as part of their circle. Generally, homoerotic works “were ma for iends, ” Llie said, and they’ve only more recently been g to the market.

He ced the Amerin artist Pl Cadm, “a very charmg man” he knew through gay circl Cann. Born the remote town of Deadwood, South Dakota, 1933, Llie had saved enough money by the time he was 17 to take a b to Los Angel, where he enuntered his first gay muny.

After his two-year stt was up, Llie enrolled the Sorbonne Paris before travelg throughout Europe, livg Venice and Amsterdam, known as the gay pal of post-war Europe.