This Red Pat Contas the Blood of Gay Men – SURFACE

Contents:

• THIS RED PAT CONTAS THE BLOOD OF GAY MEN
• THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS
• GAY WATER — CYNIL, PAT-BY-NUMBERS VIRTUE-SURFG START-UP? OR BEVERAGE INDTRY UNIRN WH GIFT OF GAY RIGHTS?
• RABOW FACE PAT FACE PATG K GAY LBIAN PRI FLAG COLOR FACE PAT LGBT GAY PRI FLAG FACE BODY PATG SUPPLI POCKET SIZE MARCH EVENTS FTIVAL FACE PAT MAKP PALETTE
• JD STARON LNCH COLLECTN WH VERY GAY PAT

THIS RED PAT CONTAS THE BLOOD OF GAY MEN

Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T are LA based edians who, g ancient gay wizardry, turn your walls gay wh pat. As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn.

THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS

Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture. A New Yorker of Amerin-Colombian scent, Michael Mejia is a gay artist bt known for his hyper-realistic body patgs.

Prottg the FDA’s polici banng gay men om donatg blood, first enacted durg the AIDS crisis, artist Stuart Semple is lnchg a pat llectn mixed wh the donated blood of gay men.

GAY WATER — CYNIL, PAT-BY-NUMBERS VIRTUE-SURFG START-UP? OR BEVERAGE INDTRY UNIRN WH GIFT OF GAY RIGHTS?

Confound by the ongog jtice of the rtrictns on healthy gay men, the artist Stuart Semple teamed wh creative agency Mother to prt a seri of T-shirts wh k ma om their blood.

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Semple hop people e the ep-red suppli to prott the FDA’s polici, which crics ll outdated and homophobic. Apt at mixg pigments and mocratizg lor, Semple had his work cut out for him when formulatg the Gay Blood Collectn— turns out that our val fluids don’t make the most effective lorants.

At least, that’s if you ask Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson T, the edian-muralist hybrids of Very Gay Pat.

Smash cut to prent-day Los Angel, where Very Gay Pat is a fully-fledged mural pany takg on imprsive, high-profile projects like RuPl’s black-and-whe-striped dg room and Trixie Mattel’s Trixie Motel Palm Sprgs. ” They exprs this through their brand big and small ways, om the tagle on their webse (“We pat thgs a way that is very gay”), to their homepage button labeled “Homo” stead of “Home, ” to their promotnal materials overtly parodyg the form of ntent that morn-day artists create. In many ways, Very Gay Pat is a long-form, drawn-out edy sketch that Scheppard and T have mted to so hard that the muralist characters they’ve veloped and play are now actual, real-life muralists.

JD STARON LNCH COLLECTN WH VERY GAY PAT

“I very much thk of Very Gay Pat as a character that I play, ” reflected T. “We created the two muralists that play this way, this satiril and irreverent and absurd voice around beg gay.

Startg om the name Very Gay Pat, ’s obv that the cx of the brand’s edy is their over-emphasis on Scheppard and T beg gay.