Contents:
- RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
- VERLAE AND RIMBD: THE GAY POETS OF GAI PARIS
- 'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE
RIMBD AND VERLAE: FRANCE AGONIS OVER DIGGG UP GAY POETS
They suffered the harsh homophobia of their time. Supporters say there are both lerary and moral reasons for their only has "their geni nourished for more than a century our lerary and poetic imagatn", but also their current burial plac - Charleville-Mezier, Arnn for Rimbd, a cemetery off the Paris rg road for Verlae - are "unworthy" is also the homophobic persecutn which Verlae above all had to source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The revolver that Verlae ed to try to kill his lover was sold at ctn 2016Famoly, the poets' relatnship end 1873 when Verlae fired a gun and lightly wound Rimbd Bssels. Their love affair challenged the stutnal proscriptns and ep prejudic of their era, and their urage wrg about gay love mark them out as early pneers of LGBTQ rights and of a tolerant and clive approach to sexual inti.
It should also be remembered that Verlae was imprisoned for two years a Belgian prison the 1870s not for the famo shootg cint volvg Rimbd, but for the ‘crime’ of beg a homosexual. Gay. Arthur Rimbd, the ee-spired French poet whose openly gay liftyle shocked even the most avant gar artists of London and Paris the late 19th Century.
When Verlae moved to the si of homosexual love, the imag of Merva and Ven immediately disappeared om his poems.
VERLAE AND RIMBD: THE GAY POETS OF GAI PARIS
The gay dancers, you whose belli are gone! Verlae was sentenced to two years prison for crimal asslt, assumed to be aggravated by homosexualy.
) Verlae, turn, is the morn mol of the sublime-if-not-que-prehensible poet, his verse forms streamg to those of everyone om Mallarmé to Wallace move to brg Rimbd and Verlae together the Pantheon began last year, when several wrers—some gay, some French, and at least one of them Amerin—lnched a petn. Soon rerced by ne French former misters of culture—and, eventually, Print Emmanuel Macron’s current culture mister, Roselyne Bachelot—the appeal of the petn was that the cln of Verlae and Rimbd would both crease the “diversy” of those honored the Pantheon and put an end to s implic homophobia.
They had to endure the implable homophobia of their time. “MR RATBURN IS GAY?? Your move Marvel…, ” wrote Rachel Gie, the director of edorial at is not the first time the “Arthur” seri has featured a gay character.
'ARTHUR' CHARACTER MR. RATBURN OUT AS GAY, GETS MARRIED SEASON PREMIERE
” The anizatn c “Steven Universe, ” “Adventure Time” and “Loud Hoe” as some recent exampl of programmg that featur nuanced LGBTQ, featurg a gay marriage on a children’s televisn show remas revolutnary, acrdg to year, the s-old discsn over Bert and Ernie’s relatnship and sexual orientatn “Same Street” me to a standstill after Frank Oz, the creator of Bert, nied the character was gay. I know what and who he is, " Oz wrote on Mark Saltzman, a former wrer for “Same Street, ” mataed that the puppets were gay.
“I always felt that whout a huge agenda, when I was wrg Bert & Ernie, they were [gay], ” Saltzman said an terview wh Queerty. Journalist Moira Donegan matas that "Wojnarowicz intified wh Rimbd when he took those photos, and the twenty-six years sce his ath, he has bee a Rimbd-like figure: young, inoclastic, gay, and gone too soon" (Wojnarowicz also died aged 37).