Beefke imagery was appropriated by the gay muny for s own benefs to bee a visual ttimony of same-sex sire durg the pre-Stonewall era.
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The artist’s famo playful, homoerotic them are certaly already there, but nsir the time and place.
Homosexualy was, after all, still illegal Great Bra then, not that stopped Hockney om ttg society’s lims while still enrolled at the Royal College of Art. Beefke Photography & the Gay Communy: 1940s to 1960s.