Felix Lance Falkon (Author of Gay Art)

Contents:

• GAY ART
• GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN PAPERBACK – ILLTRATED, 16 DECEMBER 2006
• GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN - SOFTVER

GAY ART

When patg imag of queer love, sctn, sex, and romance, I strip the gay theme of s taboo nature. It stands for the universal experience of love, but is also the product of a gay artist who refers to the relatnship wh his lover.

GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN PAPERBACK – ILLTRATED, 16 DECEMBER 2006

The artwork, therefore, tablish an equal view of homosexual and heterosexual relatnships. Sce Felix Gonzalez-Torr did not hi his sexual orientatn and even addrsed his work, the billboards also show the love and timacy of a gay uple. Some homophobic senator is gog to have a very hard time tryg to expla to his nstuency that my work is homoerotic or pornographic, but if I were to do a performance wh HIV blood — that’s what he wants, that’s what the rags expect bee they n sensatnalize that, and that’s what’s disappotg.

It diverts the heteronormative view a subtle way and mak gay love visible. Silver Wner, ForeWord Magaze Book of the Year Award (Gay/Lbian Non-Fictn)Bronze Wner, Inpennt Publisher Book Award (Bt Eroti)When first published 1972, A Historic Collectn of Gay Art was the first book to document explic exprsns of gay male sexualy the graphic arts, om antiquy to pop culture; s ank and unapologetic survey of the pleasur of the flh was, for gay men, unprecented, and remas the startg-pot for morn-day discsns of erotic gay male artwork and ics.

GAY ART: A HISTORIC COLLECTN - SOFTVER

There is also a preface by Earl Kemp, one of the book's origal edors, on the story of s publitn at a time when the celebratn of gay men's sexualy was still a dangero thg. Gay Art also provis a morn-day discsn about pleasure and permissn: qutns about how we fe erotic imagery, and what we should and should not be allowed to see.

Subversive, smart, and sexy, Gay Art tak erotic imag om the past out of the closet and to the light of prent day. A treasure trove of early gay pornography. Erotic gay male art is a very big tegory but this revised and updated edn of the btsellg Greenleaf book do a good job.

Gay Art: A Historic Collectn is sential readg for anyone terted gay graphics, gay history, the cultural history of the 1960s and 70s, sex the arts, or pla old hot pictur.... Those glancg at this volume will undoubtedly ntemplate not only how much has changed but also how much has not pictg gay male life.

The book has unqutnable value as a look to the fantasy life of gay men om the 1950s to the 70s.