Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics.
Contents:
- HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
- DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
- GAY SLANG 101
- 12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
* gay slang painter *
Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics.
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.
DICK LESCH’S GUI TO SEVENTI GAY SLANG
A glossary of gay slang monly ed pop culture wh fns and exampl. We fe words ed by gay people such as sickeng, sha, werk, ki ki, tea and more! Once you know what the words your gay vobulary will be fierce! So get readg hunty and go to werk! * gay slang painter *
It’s jarrg to thk that was only 50 years ago that male homosexualy was crimalized the UK. Prr to 1967, hidg one’s sexualy was not jt a choice for gay men, but a necsy. Known gay men like Osr Wil (who was later imprisoned bee of his sexualy) married women for social pretense, and psychiatrists offered dangero nversn therapi to those sperate to alter their orientatn.
Polari, a secret Brish slang ed by gay men, for stance, allowed them to speak eely whout the fear of arrt.
Gay artists (as well as artists believed to be gay) often explored homosexualy amic guis, such as through Greek mythology. 1869) for example, hted at the sexual relatns between olr mentors and young men Ancient Greece, wh the sexual subtext of an terracial gay uple.
GAY SLANG 101
Gay rights: Greatly expand, 'impossibly agile'. Props like peack feathers and dyed green rnatns were worn on jacket lapels, athetic signifiers that allowed gay men to intify themselv – and each other – whout beg ught.
12 SLANG WORDS FOR GAY – USE THE TERMS TO ADDRS THEM!
As a gay man himself, Warhol was offerg a space for queer dienc wh the homophobic language of mastream Ameri. His work manipulat spac tradnally associated wh heterosexualy, like locker rooms, wh a queer athetic, ntug Warhol’s tradn of transformg the everyday to artistic s of gay male sire. Dick Lesch, an early gay-rights activist, who is now his eighti, arranged to donate his old workg fil to the archiv of the New York Public Library.
”In 1959, when Lesch was twenty-four, he left his fay home, Kentucky, for New York Cy, where he found work as a pater, a bartenr, a rator, a journalist, and as the unpaid print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns.
When the Stonewall rts broke out, three years later, he was the only openly gay reporter on the scene, verg the event for a new gay-focsed magaze lled The a recent Friday eveng, Lesch’s buzzer rang. In 1959, he left Kentucky for New York Cy, where he beme the print of the Mattache Society, one of the first gay-rights anizatns. A py of a 1976 gay guibook, wrten by Lesch, along wh his origal typewrten mancript.