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WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
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What would we unrstand about David Hockney’s art, Peter Tchaikovsky’s mic, and Jean Cocte’s lerature whout knowg of their homosexualy? Archecture’s Comg OutNowadays, the fact that homosexual archects occupy a unique and thoroughly intifiable place archecture is hardly ntted US archectural history any more. The fact that an stutn such as the AIA began to addrs the topic early on is closely nnected to the outbreak of AIDS the late 1980s, when the “gays’ disease” claimed several famo US archects as s victims.
The zenh of s g out was reached 1996, when Philip Johnson (1906 to 2005), the doyen of post-War US archecture, had his portra done for the ver of the well-known gay magaze “Out” StudiOf urse queer studi archecture do not set out to tablish a specifilly “gay” sign style. Of far more tert are the particular circumstanc unr which homosexual archects worked history, which for a long time volved discrimatn and persecutn, and how nowadays their sexual orientatn n impact their work as archects. So on the one hand is about renstctg prer existenc, and as such the ndns unr which, earlier and more recent tim, renowned homosexual archects particular were able to pursue their profsn.