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KEH HARG ILLTRATED ANNOUNCEMENT FOR GAY/LBIAN PRI DAY, NEW YORK, 1986, 1986

Artist Keh Harg’s body of work wasn’t jt dancg figur and radiant babi. He also brought gay art and safe sex onto the streets. Harg remas probably one of the only artists who bed artistic exprsn and mercialism wh a fierce advocy for gay rights and HIV awarens. * keith haring gay art *

His later work nveyed polil and societal them such as homosexualy and anti-apartheid msag.

Keh Harg was an openly gay Amerin artist.

FEBRUARY IS LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, AN ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & NON-BARY HISTORY.

Intrigugly, the ntext of a public health emergency and homophobia, this piece of work is like a mirror that reflected people’s var reactns to the latn of Covid-19 spread and LGBTQ+ people’s stggl durg the lockdown. A reference to Nazi opprsn of LGBTQ people om the 1930s to 1940s, the pk triangle the middle of the nvas symboliz a posive regnn of people’s self-inty as well as a remr of the persecutn of gay people durg the Holot.

It says a lot about the way he approached his work — both as motivatn and as as a T-shirt, the self-portra drawg by an inic gay artist of a engulfed a vilent nservative culture war is not clud “Keh Harg: Art Is for Everybody, ” the big survey (some 120 works) newly opened downtown at the Broad and arrivg jt time for the celebratn of LGBTQ+ Pri Month.

Some gave promence to pleasurable fun, like g loud Day-Glo pats that would terpt the ntemplative quiet of a typilly hhed art gallery wh the vivid exuberance found on a packed gay bar’s liberatg dance floor.

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