Andy Warhol, Gay and Catholic | Marc Barn

Contents:

• ANDY WARHOL AS A GAY ARTIST NFLICT WH HIS CATHOLIC FAH
• WAS ANDY WARHOL GAY? DEATH CSE AND OBUARY
• ANDY WARHOL, GAY AND CATHOLIC

ANDY WARHOL AS A GAY ARTIST NFLICT WH HIS CATHOLIC FAH

But the exhibn’s foc on the artist’s fah touch on the nflict, and sometime the horror, of beg a gay man a tradn that eply disapproved, and adds dimensn to what we know about Warhol’s relatnship wh his mother. While his sexualy is equently supprsed or bated, Warhol was a gay man who had several partners throughout his life. This tour trac Warhol’s romantic relatnships and queer inty agast the backdrop of the historil gay rights movement the Uned Stat.

“In New York, he pletely threw himself to this creative queer muny, ” Moran even the New York gay and arts scen, Warhol — who as a public figure was famoly elive about his bgraphil tails and inty — was “almost but never que out, ” Gopnik wr his Warhol bgraphy. “Anyone wh half a bra realized that Warhol was gay, but he didn’t actually e out and say really until the 1970s and ’80s, and even then was only said a somewhat jokg way, ” Gopnik ’s artistic immersn gay culture New York is on view a selectn of his early le drawgs om the 1950s featured the Tate exhib. Together, they rell not only a “moment of gay life New York, ” as Gopnik not, but also Warhol’s role as both a wns to and a participant that the drawgs, like most of Warhol’s explic works throughout the 1950s, were not well received by the U.

Like the early le drawgs, “Sleep” implicly suggts Warhol’s dual rol both as an observer of gay life and a member of . “By makg so formally avant-gar, he saved himself om havg to worry about whether people would be up arms about s gay ntent, ” Gopnik ntrast, the ntent of Warhol’s “Ladi and Gentlemen” seri, which Marsha P.

WAS ANDY WARHOL GAY? DEATH CSE AND OBUARY

“It was rare for women who weren’t naked to be the subject of art; was extremely rare for people of lor to be the subject of art by and for the mastream world; and my gus is ’s one of very few imag of transgenr people, and certaly the only signifint reprentatn of transgenr people of lor by a major whe artist, ” Gopnik Italian art aler Luciano Anselmo missned the seri om Warhol after the artist brought him to the Gild Grape, a bar Midtown Manhattan that attracted gay and transgenr people, along wh drag queens. Pictured: Amerin film producer Lter Persky wh Warhol and Capote 1978 Warhol beme one of the world's most fluential artists by llapsg the ia of high and low culture and brgg nsumerist art to the was obssed wh celebry and ed the phrase that turned to a prophecy, that one day everyone will be famo for 15 on a personal level, Warhol has built up a reputatn for beg aloof om others, pecially when me to wr this wasn't the se and tails his nquts pth, ncludg the perceptn of Warhol as beg asexual relat to 'some remag homophobia our culture'. The tails are revealed the new book Warhol by Blake Gopnik, a 900-page book about the Pop Art geni Gopnik wr: 'If we've fally e to accept that one of our artistic ins was gay, we still prefer not to picture him ught the act wh men.

ANDY WARHOL, GAY AND CATHOLIC

'Warhol was born Andrew Warhola 1929 to immigrants om what is now known as Slovakia Ptsburgh where beg gay uld led to beg arrted. In the 1940s sodomy was still prosecuted as a crime and the Ptsburgh police created a 'Morals Squad' whose only job was to arrt gay supposedly cried durg cuddl over the shame of growg up gay Deprsn-era Ptsburgh where gay men and women were treated like crimals.

So was only when Warhol moved to New York 1949 that he began to explore his gay inty, Gopnik was 'utterly immersed' the gay muny of Manhattan and one Halloween he turned up to a party wearg a garland of flowers, as 'daisy cha' was gay slang for a round rob 's first 'notable' csh was a pen pal, a young artist named Tommy Jackson who was a 'blond haired hunk' of a man who was four years younger than Warhol. ' Warhol (pictured 1981) supposedly cried durg cuddl over the shame of growg up gay Deprsn-era Ptsburgh where gay men and women were treated like crimals Warhol was 'utterly immersed' the gay muny of Manhattan and one Halloween he turned up to a party wearg a garland of flowers, as 'daisy cha' was gay slang for a round rob y. A later Warhol was treated at a hospal for ndylomata, a sexually transmted disease and required penicill to rid , but his revery took fact he would be treated for rectal problems the 1980s, suggtg Warhol was participatg some kd of sexual Mead, who Gopnik lls one of Warhol's 'clost gay llaborators', once claimed he 'blows like crazy - or wherever he n get ', apparently referrg to oral sex.

He moved wh Warhol and they 'functned as hband and hband' and appeared to have a full sexual relatnship In an terview before his ath on Febary 22, 1987, om plitns after a gallbladr surgery, Warhol clared his 'heart's been broken several tim'A iend relled a time when someone nied another gay uple were lovers, wh Warhol sayg: 'That would be like sayg Jed and I were jt iends' iend add: 'Believe me, they were lovers' nfirmed this to a iend later and said sex wh Warhol was 'at a schoolboy level' public they did not display any affectn and Warhol uld be a jealo and ntrollg partner, no small part due to the attempt on his relatnship lasted until 1980, by which time Warhol was partyg at Stud 54 where he 'uldn't keep his ey, or his thoughts, or sometim his hands, off the geo young lads he saw on the dance floor most nights' a farewell note Johnson told Warhol: 'I don't thk you'll get (what you're lookg for) om your Victors and Kevs and nights at Stud 54.