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Read, watch and savour your way through the current gay cultural i - disver new thors, books, artists, photographers, mm exhibs, art crawls. * lgbt art books *
Wh OUT, you never need to miss a hot new gay art exhib, or fall behd on the latt trendg gay books. OUT brgs you the bt art crawls om Wt Hollywood to Harlem, and the hippt mm exhibs om the Los Angel County Mm of Art to the Llie Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art New York, and everywhere between.
Disver new books by proment gay thors like Andy Cohen, Anrson Cooper, Patricia Nell Warren, Chuck Palahni and more. OUT is your place to go for all aspects of LGBT art and gay culture. Ancient Greeks and subsequent Romans were perfectly fe wh pursug and praisg homosexual relatnships and gladly picted them their visual art.
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Jt like Greeks, Romans thought homosexualy was normal and natural and even enuraged among young men as a re of passage. Many Roman emperors were bisexual, but Hadrian was probably the first to openly clare his homosexualy and vote his life to his lover, Anto. As you know, admtg one’s homosexualy was a ee pass to the neart prison back the day.
You’d be surprised to fd that pulp fictn magaz were among the first to display homosexual relatnships on their mass-produced paperbacks the 1950s and 1960s. Although the vers often featured exaggerated pos, sctive looks, and nudy, they were among the first affordable means for people to get acquated wh homosexualy. The tl of the novels were often d: Words such as twilight and strange dited lbian ntent, and them of racism and prostutn hted at gay relatnships.
The patg shows the bleached Amerin flag and reprents the reprsn and isolatn queer people (for Johns, gay men particular) feel the US. Due to the Hollywood Productn Co, which prohibed displays of homosexualy, many people felt pelled to hi their inti. The symbol was ed ncentratn mps to mark homosexuals btally tortured and murred durg WWII.