HE Travel alumni and iends head to the Metropolan Mm of Art New York Cy for Profsor Lear's “Secret Gay Tour Of The MET.”
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- GAY SECRETS OF THE METROPOLAN MM - A VIRTUAL TOUR
- GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK
- SECRET GAY TOUR OF THE MET
- GAY SECRETS OF THE MET TOUR: FRI 6/23 6PM
GAY SECRETS OF THE METROPOLAN MM - A VIRTUAL TOUR
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There’s plenty to see at New York’s Metropolan Mm of Art, but only one man is offerg gay art history tours of the venerable stutn. Through his pany Osr Wil Tours, reports the Daily Beast, 56-year-old art historian Andrew Lear is shg a new light on the Met’s surprisgly homoerotic llectn.
In London, Lear hosted “From Edward II to Ian McKellen: the World’s Gayt Natnal Portra Gallery, ” while the Louvre got a siar treatment Paris.
GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK
This year’s offergs clu an Italian tour October, and a number of gay-foced tours of New York, cludg the two-hour Met vis. Osr Wil Tours isn’t the first group to latch onto the ia of ssg out the gay them artworks proment stutns. Quiky, a gay travel pany, giv tours of the Vatin that celebrat the homosexualy of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo (see Gay Art Tours of the Vatin Are All the Rage).
SECRET GAY TOUR OF THE MET
While the ancient Greek and Roman galleri might seem like a natural startg place, wh their embrace of the male nu and overtly sexual, often homoerotic imagery, pecially on vas, Lear also explor homosexual unrton and them Oceanic works, Renaissance masterpiec, and morn patgs. “There’s so much homoeroticism the history of art that you n’t keep out that easily, ” Lear told the Daily Beast.
Pasquali, Lear wrote on the Gay and Lbian Review, was a famo strato, and the lover of the proment rdal who missned the patg, which promently featur the god’s genalia. Profsor Andrew Lear was a h wh the New York Cy HE Travel alumni and iends who me to the Metropolan Mm of Art for his “Secret Gay Tour Of The MET. After the tour, the group renvened at the Townhoe, a venerable gay bar on East 58th Street for mararie, shared stori, and drks urty of HE Travel.
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GAY SECRETS OF THE MET TOUR: FRI 6/23 6PM
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