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Contents:
- GAY AMERIN GOTHIC, 2019
- AMERIN GODS AIRS MOST GRAPHIC GAY SEX SCENE EVER
- ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
GAY AMERIN GOTHIC, 2019
* 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.
AMERIN GODS AIRS MOST GRAPHIC GAY SEX SCENE EVER
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.
ANNE RICE AND HER HOMOEROTIC VAMPIR LEFT AN IMMORTAL MARK ON GAY CULTURE
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.