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Contents:
- HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
- IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
- WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
- THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
* gay in hiding *
Known gay men like Osr Wil (who was later imprisoned bee of his sexualy) married women for social pretense, and psychiatrists offered dangero nversn therapi to those sperate to alter their orientatn. Gay artists (as well as artists believed to be gay) often explored homosexualy amic guis, such as through Greek mythology. 1869) for example, hted at the sexual relatns between olr mentors and young men Ancient Greece, wh the sexual subtext of an terracial gay uple.
IS MY HBAND GAY? SIGNS OF A GAY HBAND
Props like peack feathers and dyed green rnatns were worn on jacket lapels, athetic signifiers that allowed gay men to intify themselv – and each other – whout beg ught.
As a gay man himself, Warhol was offerg a space for queer dienc wh the homophobic language of mastream Ameri. His work manipulat spac tradnally associated wh heterosexualy, like locker rooms, wh a queer athetic, ntug Warhol’s tradn of transformg the everyday to artistic s of gay male sire.
WASHGTON, D.C.'S HIDN GAY HISTORY IS UNVERED 'SECRET CY'
As gay people mt ci on a daily basis whether to reveal and to whom they will reveal, g out is a procs that never the jargon of ntemporary homosexual culture, those who hi their sexual inti are referred to as eher closeted or said to be the closet.
Homosexual IntiIn the velopmental histori of gay men and women, perds of difficulty acknowledgg their homosexualy, eher to themselv or to others, are often reported.
THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
On the ntrary, begng childhood--and distguishg them om racial and ethnic mori--gay people are often subjected to the antihomosexual attus of their own fai and muni (Drcher et al., 2004). Antihomosexual attus clu homophobia (Weberg, 1972), heterosexism (Herek, 1984), moral nmnatns of homosexualy (Drcher, 1998) and antigay vlence (Herek and Berrill, 1992). Hidg activi learned childhood often persist to young adulthood, middle age and even sencence, leadg many gay people to nceal important aspects of themselv.