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Contents:
- THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
- BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture. * gay photo artist *
Four s ago, the photographer Tom Bianchi began pturg the nearly 10, 000 gay men who every summer flocked to their En a specific part of New York’s Fire Island.
Matthew Morroc“This photograph serv as the ver of my photo book, Complic, which tells the story of relatnships wh olr gay men New York om 2010 to 2015.
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
Last week saw the lnch of The Ltle Black Gallery's new queer photography magaze BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!. The llectors edn Volume 1 featur the work of ten photographers om ten untri and adds to the growg BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! art platform "to promote queer and gay photography", which now reprents more than 60 photographers om 24 untri cludg… * gay photo artist *
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Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more.
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
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Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture. Mart told ESSENCE that part of how she began drawg was to pe the homophobia her environment.
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NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWorkg largely outsi the gallery system, a group of illtrators is revivg the disciple and refg how queer bodi are reprented MacConnell, “Ernie” 2014, waterlor and pen on paperLAST FALL, IN a ty apartment downtown New York, a 30-year-old gay physique mol named Matthew Williams stood naked agast a whe backdrop ont of the gay artist John MacConnell.
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Over the next 2, 000 years, pturg the naked male form beme an sential artistic skill, one that reached s apotheosis Wtern culture durg the Italian Renaissance, when homosexual sire was subtly exprsed Donatello’s bronze “David” (cir 1440) and Caravagg’s patg “The Micians” (1597), where the tradnal female me is replaced wh a band of boys, partially robed togas, referencg a Greek and Roman perd which homoeroti was a part of society. Classics profsor Andrew Lear, 59, who now ns Osr Wil Tours, a pany that offers excursns foced on implicly gay art and history major while some old masters fetishized the male body barely d ways, the ia of an openly queer artist exprsg his sir om a queer perspective was only born the last century.
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And spe the “queer enlightenment” of the 1970s and ’80s, when Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayo and others brought man-on-man sex to the mm, there rema few celebratory imag of openly gay men Wtern visual art. Williams’s afternoon ssn wh MacConnell, fact, is part of a recent revival of male figure drawg among ntemporary gay artists — cludg Kou Shou, Mart Bedolla and Stephen McDermott — who all specialize stripped-down reprentatns of largely young whe men.
Followg the succs of the first issue earlier this year, The Ltle Black Gallery has jt announced the publitn of Volume 2 of s stunng fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay photography, BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Here The Queer Review previews some of the work clud the magaze. Luiz © Xavier Samre.… * gay photo artist *
MacConnell and Williams met 2016 at the artist Mark Beard’s drawg salon, which now attracts a rotatg st of about 30 gay artists.
The nus “give gay people their history, ” Beard says.
Outled his signature blue pen, ’s a tribute to the sorts of mundane gay moments that are rarely celebrated art or popular culture.