This Artist Turned a Childhood Love of ‘Popeye’ Villa Bluto Into a H Exhib Among NYC’s Gay Men | Hor, the Queer Social Network

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• THIS ARTIST TURNED A CHILDHOOD LOVE OF ‘POPEYE’ VILLA BLUTO INTO A H EXHIB AMONG NYC’S GAY MEN
• GAY HISTORY: HAS ORANGE JUICE TURNED BLUTO AND POPEYE GAY?

THIS ARTIST TURNED A CHILDHOOD LOVE OF ‘POPEYE’ VILLA BLUTO INTO A H EXHIB AMONG NYC’S GAY MEN

There’s an exhib pturg the attentn of gay guys New York Cy, and for many men has brought wh a flood of adolcent fever dreams. In addn to sparkg the tert of lol gay New Yorkers, Hanson’s exhib dited to the Popeye villa Bluto has sparked an amic nversatn between two profsors, Ramzi Fawaz and David J. In the patgs, Hanson puts his fger on a sort of melancholic attachment that both gay men and the society at large have to the figure of hyper-masculy — that ial that both magiz our sire and nstantly hurts , remdg we are never enough (never big enough, powerful enough, strong enough to be “real” men or sirable to those men who seemgly f the ial).

We (both the particular subculture of gay men, but also a patriarchal culture as a whole) “love” men — some of pursue them erotilly, others symbolilly or behavrally worship at their imputed power — but that love is often exactly what unrm our own self-image, promot rigid genr norms, and reproduc patriarchy. So many gay guys have gone [as a] kd of pilgrimage, and so many people jt enjoy the room bee they n tell how engaged I am and that I ma some really good patgs. The two have overe their differenc to such a gree that some the gay muny (and the straight media too, such as ad reviewer Rob Davis) have wonred if the sailors are supposed to sudnly be romantic partners.

An ironic velopment for Mute Maid, given the anti-gay “Save Our Children” csas by former Florida Orange Juice spokwoman Ana Bryant the 1970s. Lne says gay nuendo was not tentnal but is trigued about s possibily.

GAY HISTORY: HAS ORANGE JUICE TURNED BLUTO AND POPEYE GAY?

While Lne seems imprsed that his work n be read to by the gay muny, the same nnot be said for officials at Mute Maid headquarters. “Any tent to draw a (gay relatnship) parallel would be wrong.

Is Popeye gay? An ad pany g the rtoon sailor’s likens says no, but the mercial is still beg featured on a new se of gay-themed ads. The animated spot, created by the ad agency Leo Burt, is one of the latt addns to The Commercial Closet, an onle mm of gay-themed ads om around the world, which lnched Monday.

Pil vio clips and storyboard stills of hundreds of mercials featurg gay characters or them, cludg several that never ma on the air.