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Contents:
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
- 10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * gay french painter *
London-based photographer Sunil Gupta has spent much of his reer chroniclg the bety and stggle of his own gay muny. The seri of photographs was his rponse to Sectn 28, a group of laws that prohibed promotg “the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship” the Uned Kgdom.
Amerin photographer and reporter Nancy Andrews published Fay: A Portra of Gay and Lbian Ameri 1993.
This photograph shows Roberta Achtenberg, an attorney and civil rights advote—and the first openly gay feral appotee nfirmed by the US Senate. It is only relatively recent tim that the subject of homoeroticism has been able to be addrsed wh any serns at all. Wh the growg acceptance of sexual diversy has e a rethkg of the role played by homosexualy art history.
THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
We look back at the bt French gay cema. * gay french painter *
It did not stop the great paters of the Renaissance, many of whom are today acknowledged as gay, om portrayg the sexual allure of famoly, the var versns of St Sebastian’s martyrdom, showg a spicly mcular torso punctured by arrows, achieved inic stat among homosexual admirers who rpond not only to his physil bety, but also to his plight as a tortured, yet steadfast, martyr.
ESTIMATE: £18, 000–25, took until the epochal social chang of the 1960s (and specifilly the crimalisatn act of 1967 the UK) for homosexualy to prise self out of the closet, and art acted as both talyst and rerr of the moment.
Mapplethorpe picted the sado-masochistic trop of gay sex, not primarily as attempts to outrage the public, but as ntral, if betifully shot, rerds of homosexual activy.
10 GREAT FRENCH GAY FILMS
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. * gay french painter *
By the time of his ath om an AIDS-related illns 1989, the alarmg spread of the disease had bee a clarn-ll for gay artists, rultg the explicly polil art of Keh Harg and the Gran Fury llective. ESTIMATE: £3, 000–5, the ol gaze of Andy Warhol, meanwhile, the cliched hyper-masculy of gay p-ups was gently ironised: his starkly-l, tightly-cropped Body Builr of 1982 is absurdly out of proportn, an afont to classil ials of manly 21st century has seen a growg acceptance of homosexualy, but only up to a pot.