"Gay Gotham" programs explore New York Cy's queer creative works.
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GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE
The NYC LGBT Historic S Project documents historic plac nnected to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people New York Cy and tells the often-untold stori of their fluence on Amerin history and culture. Abbott had started out as a lab assistant to Man Ray his Paris stud around 1924–26, g her lunch hour to portray iends om the flourishg lol homosocial muny of artists, wrers, and thkers. In 1929, the artist Richmond Barthé (1901–89), moved to New York Cy to jo the artistic and cultural scene known today as the Harlem Renaissance, enterg tablished works of gay social circl.
Although he never publicly revealed his homosexualy, Barthé’s sculptur often display homoerotic them that explo the Black male nu for s polil, racial, athetic, and erotic signifince. ” One of many nu and semi-nu male figur Barthé produced, the sensuo Boxer allus discretely to the artist’s homosexualy, about which he was necsarily circumspect throughout his life. The Crack is Wack mural was pated on both sis of a ncrete handball urt wall by the openly gay artist Keh Harg.
Created at the height of the crack epimic, the mural was dited to Harg’s stud assistant, Benny Soto, a gay Puerto Rin teenager om the South Bronx who was then addicted to crack; served to utn other young people om takg the dangero dg. In 1982, openly gay artist Mart Wong (1946–99) moved to 141 Ridge Street.