Gay Art for Sale

Contents:

• HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE
• HE-MAN’S FIVE GAYT ADVENTUR
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• GAY HE-MAN
• THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
• GAY ART

HE-MAN IS A GAY IN AND A TREASURE

I’ve llected some of my favore piec after the jump… and by favore, I mean most homoerotic. You didn’t want to be gay on tv. He-Man is a gay in, and let’s look at why bee this show is very, very queer.

To break down what mak He-Man a gay in, we n jt list some pletely te featur of the character. He-Man, the gay fashn in we never served. Divorced om s ntext, any one characteristic of He-Man isn’t nately gay.

” Yeah, but if you add the flour and sugar and kky clothg, you’ve got a lic gay ssert.

HE-MAN’S FIVE GAYT ADVENTUR

What’s Gay Around Eternia? When a show has this many stori that n be boiled down to “don’t be mean to people who are different, ” and the champn of difference has so much gay subtext, what other terpretatn should we actually be gog for? The 80s was not a iendly time for gay folk the US.

An epimic, often lled the “Gay Plague”, was killg thoands. It was still largely illegal to be gay any way other than alln, even on tv.

If you wanted a character that looked or seemed gay, they had to be a villa that would get their due punishment for their nghty, nghty generacy. That’s why every good Disney villa is a gay in, and that’s why I will see every sgle Maleficent movie the world throws at me.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

Not only that, but Lou’s dghter, Erika Scheimer me out as gay the early 2000s, and has had a lot to say about Filmatn’s and her father’s legacy. —I happened to be gay. I’ll tell you one thg, didn’t matter, bee Filmatn was one of the gayt plac town.

So they ma He-Man gay, kd of. He-Man and the Gayt Mil. When you’re as gay as He-Man, even time don’t have to be straight.

If you be all the gredients that make He-Man, then you have a gay character, even if he don’t spend his time smoochg boys.

GAY HE-MAN

It’s possible they were liberate their nstctn of this priste gay barbarian. He-Man is gay, even if he isn’t.

Like Miss Frizzle, Velma, and pretty much every Disney villa there’s ever been, He-Man is part of a rich history of characters that feel gay and kd of are bee they have all the gredients of a gay character baked to them.

THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE

Can you thk of any other inic gay characters who don’t get to be gay? When to the classic Filmatn televisn seri, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, ’s not much of a stretch to fd homoerotic subtext s ham-fisted dialogue and hyper-mascule, btish-ns. However, there are tim the sci-fi hero’s qut to fight the forc of evil wh his “fabulo secret powers” that seems to move beyond mere advertent sexual suggtn and right to “oh, that’s jt gay” terrory.

Here are five of He-Man’s gayt moments.

GAY ART

The enigmatic actor, art llector, gay activist, globetrotter, and doyenne of the SoHo scene has, along wh his late partner J. Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through. This somewhat jad crew of crics was ankly awed to fd every available surface the dky, crimson Prce Street loft absolutely vered—let me repeat: vered—wh explicly homoerotic art all styl and media, cludg var se-specific murals.

At the start of his and Lohman’s llectg days, more than 60 years ago, “gay imagery was unfortunately the hands of pornographers exclively, ” Llie lamented. Photo by Max Burkhalter for wi-rangg llectn gently illtrat the changg landspe of public gay life and the civil rights advanc crementally gaed sce he began discreetly buyg homoerotic art the 1950s.

It is only the last three s that homosexualy has gaed legal protectns the Uned Stat.