"Queer Art" beme a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the art and experience of gay, lbian+ people.
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5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS OM ART
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We explore how the ntemporary gay rights movement has aligned self wh the state, the police, the ary, and wh property velopers at the expense of s own muny.
June 20, 2021Homosexualy and genr fluidy have appeared as subjects art for lennia, but for morn Wtern cultur, wasn’t until the late 20th century that artists uld treat such them overtly, whout fear of censorship, ostracism or even arrt. The well-documented tippg pot was June 1969, when a route police raid on the Stonewall Inn — a bar Greenwich Village known for drawg a gay, lbian and transgenr crowd — unwtgly gave rise to an ongog groundswell of LGBTQ activism. At the time, homosexualy was illegal 49 stat, gays and lbians were barred om workg for the feral ernment, and police treated cross-drsg as a punishable crime.