Contents:
- LUCIAN FRD’S GAY RELATNSHIPS EXPLORED NEW EXHIBN
- LUCIAN FRDS GAY RELATNSHIPS DISVERED LATT NVENTN
- WAS FRD “GAY-FRIENDLY?"
- GAY HISTORY: RONNIE KRAY – “THE QUEEN MOTHER”.
- LOVE LUCIAN BY DAVID DAWSON AND MART GAYFORD REVIEW
LUCIAN FRD’S GAY RELATNSHIPS EXPLORED NEW EXHIBN
Lucian Frd had a famoly plex love life fatherg children wh many women but before all that there was a passnate, secret and endurg gay relatnship volvg two other young artists, a new exhibn wrer and curator Julian Mach has pieced together a story the artist tried to supprs and one, he argu, which helps better unrstand the art of story volv Frd, Adrian Ryan and John Mton who as young, handsome artists their 20s had, Mach says, a closens and sexual timacy which is ltle known and Ryan self-portra. Others, cludg the artist David Tdle, who beme a iend of Frd’s the 1940s, have nfirmed the has been said to have had a number of gay affairs, cludg wh the poet Stephen Spenr.
“It was difficult bee of the tim [when homosexual acts were illegal] and of urse they were so young. Lucian Frds gay relatnships disvered latt nventn.
LUCIAN FRDS GAY RELATNSHIPS DISVERED LATT NVENTN
Lucian Frd had a famoly plex relatnship fatherg kids wh several girls before all those thgs there is a passnate, key and endurg homosexual mment volvg two more youthful artisans, a nventn reveals. Frd is nsired experienced some gay issu, cludg wh the poet Stephen Spenr. It was actually hard bee of the hours [when homosexual acts were illegal] as well as they certaly were therefore young.
’”“We’re lookg at art through social issu of today, and I thk ’s actually a one-dimensnal readg, ” said the gallerist, who met Frd when she was workg at Christie’s and saw him regularly until his ath: for breakfast, or lunch, and when his works me up ctns or exhibns that she llaborated Gayford, a Brish thor and cric who posed for Frd’s portra “Man Wh a Blue Srf” (2004) and wrote a book about , said misogyny was an unfair cricism of Frd, bee he picted men jt as harshly, and “regard himself as a femist. ”He was “tryg to see thgs tthfully, as they really are, ” said Gayford, who recently eded a pilatn of Frd’s exhibn is staged a few rooms away om some of the world’s ft old master patgs, and on the very spot where a Raphael retrospective was held.
WAS FRD “GAY-FRIENDLY?"
Acrdg to wns, the nu self- portra hung a Geneva apartment equented by artists—cludg Francis Ban and, on ocsn, Frd—for gay liaisons. When the owner unveiled the patg a private exhibn, an dividual om Geneva’s gay muny remembered seeg the work hangg the apartment, and relled that was pated at the requt of Ban and displayed (along wh another work) at the entrance to be enjoyed secret by the visors. 2020 also marks the 100th anniversary of his publitn, Psychogenis of a Case of Homosexualy a Woman, which he lays out a theory about what “” homosexualy.
Jt for the rerd, still today, no one knows what “” eher heterosexualy or homosexualy. For much of the 20th century, the field of psychoanalysis was hostile to gay people, mostly characterizg them as mentally ill. Fortunately, the last quarter-century, anizatns like the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn (APsaA), which I joed 2015, have bee more “gay-iendly.
Yet, attempts to fd Frd’s support for ntemporary, tolerant analytic attus, some portray him as a historic ally of gay people. In makg this se, the field’s many years of anti-gay antipathy are treated as a viatn om Frd’s origal attu of acceptance.
GAY HISTORY: RONNIE KRAY – “THE QUEEN MOTHER”.
To start, while Frd did not believe homosexualy was an illns, he did not thk was entirely normal eher. It was this belief that led Frd to sign a statement to crimalize homosexualy 1930s Germany and Atria. Frd’s 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexualy is another example of how his wrgs n be misunrstood if taken out of their origal ntext and filtered through the lens of morn bat about the social stat of gay people.
LOVE LUCIAN BY DAVID DAWSON AND MART GAYFORD REVIEW
He add a footnote a 1914 re-edn statg, “Psychoanalytic rearch is most cidly opposed to any attempt at separatg off homosexuals om the rt of mankd as a group of special character. In Frd’s time, a wily held “generacy theory” saw homosexualy as a mental disorr brought on by a nt liftyle. In Three Essays, Frd disagreed and gave exampl of homosexualy as prent:.
On the other hand, Frd was also at odds wh 19th-century “third sex theory, ” an alternative view of homosexualy that hypothized a gay man had a woman’s spir trapped his body and that lbians had men’s spirs trapped theirs—and that such a ndn was normal for them! In the early 20th century, the leadg proponent of third sex theory was Magn Hirschfeld, an openly “homosexual” psychiatrist who led the German homophile (gay rights) movement Frd’s time (Lrsen and Thorstad, 1974). Of urse, he tak your remark at the Congrs as a pretext; homosexual touchs.
In other words, Frd opposg “any attempt at separatg off homosexuals om the rt of mankd as a group of special character” is a put-down of a central belief of Hirschfeld’s German homophile movement: that “homosexuals” are a third sex. Homosexual men have experienced a specially strong fixatn on their mother... Addn to their manift homosexualy, a very nsirable measure of latent or unnsc homosexualy n be tected all normal people.