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.
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FEBRUARY IS LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH, AN ANNUAL CELEBRATN OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & NON-BARY HISTORY.
LOS ANGELES — Keh Harg (1958-1990) was a gay boy om Kutztown, Pa., who moved to New York Cy 1978 to study art. For the next , he thrived the cy’s emergg Hip-Hop and graffi culture that fluenced high culture through exposure of his murals at large dance and social club... * keith haring gay *
His later work nveyed polil and societal them such as homosexualy and anti-apartheid msag. Keh Harg was an openly gay Amerin artist.
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.
Keh Harg was a gay artist and activist who beme a hoehold name – and gay in – Amerin culture. So let’s rekdle wh the groundbreakg highlights of his gay existence.