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Contents:

• GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• 'LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE': CONTROVERSIAL GAY PRI MURAL OF MAN WEARG BONDAGE GEAR SYDNEY'S CBD FACED WH PAT

GIANT MURAL ON NORWICH PUB HONOURS JT FASHANU, ENGLAND'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FOOTBALLER

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.

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GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

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. And wh that, we’re roundg up our big, gay art world tour.

Luckily, though, one of his most dac, masterful murals still stands—and you n fd a bathroom that’s open to the public every day of the a recent afternoon, I head to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Communy Center on Wt 13th Street downtown Manhattan. It shows an erect penis emanatg Harg’s signature was gay and active the 1980s LGBT rights movement, and ma strikg posters and patgs advotg for safe sex, awarens, and rearch around HIV and AIDS. “The work really powerfully ptur a time and an energy when our muny was fightg for our liv— tryg to stay ristant, and celebratg what we uld, ” says Glennda Ttone, the LGBTQ Communy Center’s Executive tled the piece Once Upon a Time, a nod to the gay muny’s halcyon days of ee love.

Durg the late 1980s, he and his muny not only faced the fear of ath, but also disregard and antagonizatn om the Reagan admistratn, which simultaneoly laid blame on the gay muny and refed to put rourc towards AIDS rearch. As Ttone pots out, was his “visn of a world before AIDS—a celebratn of gay male sexualy and riliency at a time when mastream Ameri was que terrified of gay male sexualy. 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.

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

The unmentned queer prence his patg igned one of the earlit known s of censorship of a gay artist the Uned Stat. The scholar Richard Meyer wrote Outlaw Reprentatn (2002) that the blond-haired civilian Cadm’s patg fs the characteristics of the gay male “fairy” or “pansy” archetype om the 1930s—a gay man wh feme characteristics and specific queer signifiers.