'100 Years of Men Love': New film unearths old stori of gay romance

Contents:

• BELOVED FATHER, GRANDFATHER, PROROO HALL OF FAMER NEAL GAY DI AT 96
• '100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE
• SEX LIV OF COLLEGE BOYS: NEW SHOW CENTERS BLACK GAY LOVE
• IS JT NEAL GAY? HIS MOVI, DATG, AGE, FAY & FACTS
• GAY NEAL
• SEX LIV OF COLLEGE BOYS: NEW SHOW CENTERS BLACK GAY LOVE
• '100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE
• SAM HGHAN SHUT DOWN GAY MORS PAST BY ADDRSG WILD CLAIMS ABOUT SEXUALY
• NEAL GAY

BELOVED FATHER, GRANDFATHER, PROROO HALL OF FAMER NEAL GAY DI AT 96

NORTH TEXAS () - Hall of fame stock ntractor and -founr of the Mque Roo, Neal Gay has died at the age of 96.

'100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE

His fay shared the news on Facebook, sayg: "On behalf of everyone here at the Gay fay and the extend fay and iends of Rafter G Roo, we are sadned to announce the passg of our beloved father, grandfather and founr Neal are so very thankful for the 96 years of wisdom, iendship and memori we have shared wh so many.

"On behalf of everyone here at the Gay fay and the extend fay and iends of Rafter G Roo, we are sadned by Rafter G Roo on Thursday, Augt 11, 2022. Gay's profsnal roo reer began as a nttant Atoka, Okla., 1945.

SEX LIV OF COLLEGE BOYS: NEW SHOW CENTERS BLACK GAY LOVE

Born June 25, 1926, Dallas, Gay ro bulls, saddle broncs and barebacks and wrtled steers, acrdg to the ProRoo Hall of Frame webse. In May 1958, Gay put Mque on the map wh the openg of the Mque Champnship Roo partnership wh several other wboys. Gay was later named managg director.

Gay's roo ntemporari pot to his early experience the productn and fancg of small roos Texas as an excellent example of what small muni n do, acrdg to the se. I've never gotten up a day my life dreadg to go to work, " Gay reportedly once said. Gay also found Rafter G Roo, which is still operatn three generatns later.

A celebratn of Gay's life is planned for Aug. A new documentary based on a vast llectn of old photos featurg gay men love gog back to the mid-1800s has ma s televisn but.

IS JT NEAL GAY? HIS MOVI, DATG, AGE, FAY & FACTS

Ni and Treadwell began their llectn 22 years ago when the uple stumbled upon a rare, century-old photo of a gay uple an antique shop. Sce then, the men have been llectg thoands of imag of gay men datg that go back 170 years.

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Hujar: © 2022 The Peter Hujar Archive, LLC/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New YorkIn amassg work ma by the mostly overlooked gay artists who lived and died durg the crisis, a global group of llectors is refg what the Wtern non looks llector, who wish to rema anonymo, keeps some of his more explic art the bathroom of his Connecticut home, cludg (middle, om top) McDermott & McGough’s “The Spir of the Htler” (2003) and “Uny Repeated” (1993). For as long as he n remember, Baer believed that beg gay was an aberrance — and that to dulge would lead to a lonely ath. He rejected that part of himself, attemptg to cure, or at least curb, his gayns through therapy and an outsir, Baer entered middle age as a happily married straight man wh a quirky reer path that ma him popular at dner parti: In addn to beg a Harvard-ted doctor, he also wrote and produced h TV shows such as “ER” and “Law & Orr: SVU.

” But even as he helped troduce gay and trans characters to televisn, his sire gnawed at him, as did the attendant shame. Enavorg to make up for lost time, Baer, who had been a sual art llector, started buyg work solely by gay artists, begng wh a lorful 1990 acrylic on paper portra by Don Bachardy of the wrer Pl Mote, whose 1992 g-out memoir, “Beg a Man: Half a Life Story, ” helped Baer do the same.

“I don’t know that the world n change for the better except wh stori, ” says Baer, 67, om the apartment he shar wh his hband, the 37-year-old psychologist Brandon Weiss, which overlooks a seclud tangle of gkgo, ailanth and rk tre Central Park known as the Ramble, where gay men have gone cisg sce at least the 1920s. Much of Baer’s llectn clus subject matter he’d long nsired taboo — maybe distasteful — and which he now displays throughout his home on Manhattan’s Upper Wt Si for the same reason gay bars screen vtage porn: as a way to rve out a space for himself and others like him where tolerance, even acceptance, of queerns isn’t enough. In the rooms, gayns is worshiped, champned, fend and DavisBaer’s tert queer art spans genr and sexual inti, but there’s an emphasis on work by gay men om the early days of the AIDS epimic the 1980s and ’90s, many of whom created relative obscury and have often been fotten, only to be reclaimed recent years by a new generatn of llectors.

SEX LIV OF COLLEGE BOYS: NEW SHOW CENTERS BLACK GAY LOVE

A selectn of work by gay male artists who lived and died durg the AIDS era. 1 of 9 A selectn of work by gay male artists who lived and died durg the AIDS era. Has arranged the works wh a curator’s eye, pickg up mon threads among the artists: Wojnarowicz’s and Wong’s tratn over feelgs of isolatn and nfement; how Steers and Hujar uld make even an ailg gay man — pecially an ailg gay man — look like a kg; the special cursy and re wh which othered people saw one another and, one another, themselv.

'100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE

At the time, some dienc found pictns of sickns too disturbg to study or hang above a crenza, among them even gay men who need to have their pa unrstood but may not have wanted to live wh nstant remrs of a plague that had fected every aspect of their liv.

Others reacted wh homophobic distaste to what they saw as disorrly exprsns of anger and sexual viance an era when the gay male body was largely feared. By buyg and biddg on the piec, he and other like-md (not to mentn rich) gay llectors are g their power to sist that stutns and ctn ho rensir art that hasn’t been given s full due.

Through programmg and acquisns, art stutns and blue-chip galleri have the power to anot new stars (like the Pakistani-born gay Amerin pater Salman Toor, 39, whose first major exhibn was at New York’s Whney Mm of Amerin Art 2020) and to remd dienc about tablished on (like the Amerin portraist Alice Neel, whose retrospective at New York’s Metropolan Mm of Art last year revigorated her cultural chet nearly four s after her ath).

SAM HGHAN SHUT DOWN GAY MORS PAST BY ADDRSG WILD CLAIMS ABOUT SEXUALY

Elsewhere his 18th-century untry home Connecticut are patgs by the English terdisciplary filmmaker Derek Jarman; a bedsi portra of Hler and the nam of gay men he persecuted durg the Holot by McDermott & McGough, an art duo who lived and drsed throughout much of the 1980s as if were the Victorian Age; and his latt acquisn: a $125, 000 st plaster head by DavisIt’s probably easier to spend so much time the pany of such sad, often nontatnal work — to look at a mournful slow dance between wasted bodi, or a sailor lyg unnsc on a rtroom floor, scen that are reprented the Steers patgs he owns — when you know how much ’s worth. ”AIDS shattered the notn of what meant to be a gay artist. ” Then there was the fact that the largely figurative works had been phed asi by Neo-Geometric Conceptualism, whose rise populary cid wh the epimic: By the mid-80s, the emergg Neo-Geo star Jeff Koons had replaced Wojnarowicz as the artist of the moment — which also meant that gay artists found themselv the impossible posn of havg to make sense of and articulate the trma of their liv, even as people grew disterted.

’” he 1969, Llie buted his first group exhibn of homoerotic art his SoHo loft; today, the Phall Palace, as ’s bee known, is crammed wh penis: not jt etchgs and patgs by Andy Warhol and Keh Harg and photographs by Stanley Stellar but the shape of salt and pepper shakers, vas, paperweights and bars of soap that were given to him over the s as gifts. “The love that dare not speak s name now jt won’t shut up, ” he John has been a siarly loud advote for gay men and the preventn and treatment of H. I never went through that thg about beg gay and beg ashamed.

NEAL GAY

“He was portrayg his real inty as a gay man, ” says John, who has 15 Hujars of his own. /AIDS rearch — Baer approached an stutn wh whom he had prevly mounted a show about dog a group exhibn of gay artists om the onset of AIDS. ” Siarly, 2007 an acquisns mtee member balked when the art historian and curator Don Bacigalupi, 62, then the director of the Toledo Mm of Art Oh, petned to purchase s first piece of openly gay art: a 1931 patg by Pl Cadm of his lover and llaborator Jared French lyg bed, a py of Jam Joyce’s “Ulyss” his hand: “It’s a...

Maybe that’s why some of the proust llectors of gay art often keep their brasht works the rtroom or the closet. ”In any se, Anrson is passnate about troducg gay artists to a new dience, as he did his fall 2021 Loewe llectn, when he rporated the New York poet and assemblage artist Joe Braard’s pansy prts to pants and as leather marquetry on handbags.

It reassur a new wave of gay artists that their visns of the world are worthy of mm shows, cril dialogue, scholarly wrg and, y, market value they wrtle wh how to articulate the glory and grotquerie of beg gay, particularly unr the threat of regrsive legislatn, the next generatn of artists has hered a tradn of fiance and celebratn that is navigatg differently than s forebears. Usg vtage gay photography, Kyle Dunn, 32, qutns our perceptns of masculy his patgs of hot men remiscent of Greek gods. Through his unflchg pictns of gay male sex, Louis Frato, 28, manag to reveal the terry and emotn hidn our most physil acts.