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. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture.
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
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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. 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.
THE COMEDY DUO BEHD ‘VERY GAY PAT’ COMMTED TO A B SO HARD THAT THEY’RE NOW REAL MURALISTS
Prottg the FDA’s polici banng gay men om donatg blood, Stuart Semple is lnchg a pat llectn mixed wh the donated blood of gay men. * paint with gay *
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. 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.
GAY WATER — CYNIL, PAT-BY-NUMBERS VIRTUE-SURFG START-UP? OR BEVERAGE INDTRY UNIRN WH GIFT OF GAY RIGHTS?
Urban Dictnary, "Gay Water" is "A vodka soda water wh lemon or lime. A gay man's perfect gateway to a good buzz and a small waistle." In a sentence: * paint with gay *
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.
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
A creative pany is tacklg a ban on blood donatns om gay and bi men a very novel way. * paint with gay *
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. “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. This ia stemmed om the duo fdg ridiculo how society will view someone’s intifitn as gay as makg whatever they do herently special and signifint. “We uldn’t earntly be like, It is valuable and amazg and good enough that I’m jt gay!
JD STARON LNCH COLLECTN WH VERY GAY PAT
That ia was hysteril— like, very few of the stars of Queer Eye have an amazg proficiency the thg they’re supposed to be good at— ’s jt them beg gay that mak amazg. I always thought that was so funny, like medcry wh the gay label on sudnly mak so sparkly. But light of the recent, buildg onslght of laws targetg the LGBTQIA+ muny and public displays of homophobic and transphobic behavr, Scheppard adms thgs have changed a b when to celebratg somethg or someone simply for beg gay.
“I thk now, there’s more room for that earnt celebratn of beg gay as beg this spectacular thg. “When we were ls at risk, that seemed so stupid, bee obvly, the next step is that gay people are jt like everyone else.
The over-emphasis on the celebratn of gayns feels dumb until ’s like, Oh sh, no, we actually really need to be celebratg. As Very Gay Pat ntu to navigate the growth of a brand whose very existence is a b, one thg is certa: they will rema very gay.