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- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Homosexualy has, for most of history, been a taboo subject. 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.
Christiany disapproved of all erotic art, but particularly anythg that hted at homosexual attractn. 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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Homosexualy as a label, or a mo of inty, did not appear Europe until the 19th century. 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. 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.
Artists ntue to challenge those who would ny their right to exprs and mentate on their own sexual orientatn, most recently 2010’s "Hi/Seek: Difference and Dire Amerin Portraure” exhibn at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Portra Gallery Washgton DC, which provoked lls for a ngrsnal review of the Smhsonian’s the subject of homoeroticism ntu to make s prence felt the cultural mastream: wns the Brish Mm’s A Ltle Gay History gui, explicly drawg attentn to objects wh homosexual them the llectn. Gay art tak a big place my work. "For years, nobody, except close iends, have seen my gay works.