Amerin Gods airs most graphic gay sex scene ever

GAY AMERIN GOTHIC, 2019

From Gallery Victor Armendariz, Beth Foley, Gay Amerin Gothic (2019), Oil on panel, 10 × 8 " data-reactroot=" * gay american gothic *

In this article for the GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW I discs the extraordary triangle between Grant Wood, the queer creator of the inic patg Amerin Gothic, his numero male assistants, and Wood’s opprsive sister Nan, who posed for the patg and nied her brother’s homosexualy until her ath. This fable was fally blown to smhereens by a recent retrospective at the Whney Mm, which dared to clare that “Wood’s homosexualy is the that unlocks the tth to his art.

Born right when the term “homosexualy” was first ed the U. In his unfished tobgraphy, filled wh none-too-subtle homoerotic stori, he rells a preacher potg at him durg a chillg sermon about Sodom and Gomorrah “jt when he was daydreamg about jot snak. In Paris, he experienced gay culture for the first time the pany of fellow artist Marcel Bort, whom he nearly brought home to mother.

Wood’s homosexualy was an open secret Cedar Rapids, where a ty gay and lbian subculture was tolerated, so long as remaed visible. ” As the owner of his favore bar put : “Grant Wood is gay only when he is dnk.

The gay muny he experienced Paris was open but margalized. In Weimar Germany, however, gay men were at the center of society, pletely accepted and assiated. The Butterfly Teashop was their favore hangout town, and jt as a butterfly mouflag s bety om predators, Wood had to do the same as a gay man.

Major publitns scribed him as “a shy bachelor’’ who mataed “a discreet silence about marriage, ” while mentng his high-pched voice—obv allns to his homosexualy. Takg a rpe, Wood found the Stone Cy Art Colony, where he spent time wh a homosocial crowd of stunts and teachers away om his fay’s supervisn. Although not gay, Rard regnized Wood’s attractn to him.

The Regnalists had provid Wood wh a mascule ver, but he remaed closeted bee the group’s lear, Thomas Benton, whose early reer had been champned by gay supporters, was wildly homophobic. Wood sublimated his reprsed sir homoerotic patgs ntag mp humor and double meangs, darg the viewer to cipher them.

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Wood was openly charged wh “beg a homosexual wh a strange relatnship wh Park Rard. To prs, Wood traveled to Key Wt, where he vised gay bars wh Tennsee Williams, who scribed him as “very, very iendly.

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GAY AMERIN GOTHIC, 2019