Gay Bar vs Art Gallery: Should Queer Exhibns Be Reclaimed by LGBT+ Venu? - ELEPHANT

Contents:

• GAY BAR VS ART GALLERY: SHOULD QUEER EXHIBNS BE RECLAIMED BY LGBT+ VENU?
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

GAY BAR VS ART GALLERY: SHOULD QUEER EXHIBNS BE RECLAIMED BY LGBT+ VENU?

Is an ongog partnership between Paddle8, the leadg ntemporary onle ctn hoe, and The Ltle Black Gallery, curated by -founr Ghisla Pasl, to promote queer and gay photography. Performance, Prott & Polics: the Art of Gilbert BakerOne of the origal eight-lor rabow flags flyg at Uned Natns Plaza durg San Francis Gay Freedom Day 1978. This onle exhibn is part of the GLBT Historil Society Mm’s exhibn  San Francis, -curated by Joanna Black and Jeremy Prce, and featur a short film by Vcent Guzzone lled Love Gilbert, which documents Baker’s efforts for gay rights activism.

Photograph: Lenore ChnLast year was the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg and this year, the GLBT Historil Society San Francis has a 50 Years of Pri exhibn, featurg roughly 50 photos om the cy’s pri paras om the 1970s onward, as well as highlights om the legalizatn of gay marriage. The artist pats young gay men hangg out nightclubs, downtown apartments and bars, often tged wh a green-hued palette (which lls to md the works of French artist Henri Touloe-Ltrec). Queer men, who have wanted to donate blood durg the panmic, were banned om dog so until April, when the US Food and Dg Admistratn updated their policy to allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood – if they are celibate for three months.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

”Illegal to Be You: Gay History Beyond StonewallA ‘Gay is Good’ button om 1968 om the llectn of Frank Kameny.

Photograph: Courty of the Smhsonian’s Natnal Mm of Amerin HistoryAn ongog onle exhibn wh the Natnal Mm of Amerin History  Washgton trac the history of gay rights and activism. Though the exhibn opened last summer to memorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, the digal ponent clus artefacts om the 19th century onward, cludg prott signs, the first trans pri flag, Aids-related lab equipment, oral histori, Billie Jean Kg’s tennis drs and ephemera om the llectn of Frank Kameny, who staged the first gay rights prott outsi the Whe Hoe. “There is no one, unified gay history; what all gay people have shared across time is the stggle for the right to be themselv and the mm has been documentg the stori for s, ” said the mm’s curator, Kathere Ott.

DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT

“Today, gay Amerins have achieved so much, yet many people are unaware of how happened. As gay people, I thk we feel extremely sensive ourselv and we all have our stggl that are dividual to our personal experienc.

I don’t thk they are gay, eher. I see hts of ternalized homophobia that le, and I thk he’d be a lot more fortable if he alt wh .

Rich: Jane Ward’s 2015 book Not Gay kicked off a lot of disurse about “straight” guys who engage “gay” sex, and I thk did a real disservice to nuance by beg totally crlo of self-labelg. Given the societal prsure to be straight and the history of closeted gay, bi, and queer men sayg one thg and dog another, I don’t necsarily thk we need to take people at their word when they say they’re straight and do thgs that suggt otherwise. I thk what happens is people say, to themselv, “Well, gay/bi/queer people are like this.