The Gay 90s - "Sometim Ser, Sometim Humoro, But Never Straight Talk" | Cleveland Historil

Contents:

• THE GAY 90'S
• ART TIME PRENTS: THE GAY 90S!
• THE GAY 90S
• GAY 90S
• MARK RYN: ‘THE GAY 90S: OLD TYME ART SHOW’
• MARK RYN, THE GAY 90S WT

THE GAY 90'S

The 'Gay 90's' term was ed the 1920s, referrg to the ialistic image of Amerin life the more hont and unplited era of the late 19th century.

The 1920s were seen as Roarg, while the Gay 90's beme a symbol of a lmer life, prospery and ral happs. After a century, at the begng of 1990s, the Gay 90s term uld not be ed the same sense any longer, as the Goln Life was anythg but a parallel of the recent perd.

Explorg the cultural spe of our age, he employs the athetics of the Gay 90s era evokg ksch, ializatn and utopism of the long lost agment of vtage pop culture.

ART TIME PRENTS: THE GAY 90S!

The exhibn tled The Gay 90s: Wt opens on May 3, ntug through June 28, 2014.

THE GAY 90S

The Gay 90s: Wt exhibn ntu the ncept of his prev show The Gay 90s: Ol Tyme Art Show om 2010 at the Kasm Gallery New York.

In May 1990, 35 LGBT activists me together at the London Lbian and Gay Centre Farrgdon, and beme the jot -founrs of OutRage! The activist group was created om the anger at ntual vlence towards the gay muny, particular the murr of Michael Boothe, who was kicked to ath Wt London, and the rise numbers of gay and bisexual men beg arrted and nvicted for nsentg, victimls behavur.

The group was mted to radil, non-vlent direct actn and civil disobedience - one of their first protts was June 1990 at the toilets Hy Park, where they protted agast the Metroplan Police and their entrapment of gay men.

GAY 90S

- the group anised a ‘kiss-’ at Picdilly Circ, prottg the arrts of gay men for kissg public. Between 1990 and 1994, the number of men nvicted for nsentg gay behavurs fell by two thirds.

1990 also saw the start of the Lbian and Gay Police Associatn (GPA). Found by Constable Jam Bradly, the GPA reprented the needs and terts of gay and bisexual police officers and police staff across the UK. Their objectiv were to: promote equal oppotunti for gay and bisexual men and women the police service; offer advice and support to gay and bisexual men and women the police service; and improve relatns between the police service and the wir gay muny.

One of GPA’s most otandg achievements me over a later, 2003, when they persuad Chief Constabl to allow gay Police Officers to march uniform Gay Pri march. Back 1948, the World Health Organisatn (WHO) published the Internatnal Classifitn Of Diseas (ICD-6) which classified homosexualy as a sexual viatn that was prumed to reflect an unrlyg personaly disorr. It wasn’t until 1992, and the publitn of ICD-10 that homosexualy was removed om the list of mental disorrs, explicy statg that the sexual orientatn by self is not nsired a disorr.

MARK RYN: ‘THE GAY 90S: OLD TYME ART SHOW’

In le wh the chang that the WHO ma, other rights for the gay mmuny were beg looked at. In 1994, the age of nsent for gay men was voted for Parliament.

Conservative Member of Parliament Edwa Currie troduced an act to lower the age of nsent for gay men - which at the time was 21 years old - to be the same as the age of nsent for heterosexual acts - 16 years old. They entered the Barbin London and hand out hundreds of leaflets accg the chary of beg ‘homophobic bigots’.

Such as handcuffg themselv to sks wh the Sunday Tim offic, prottg MPs, and ridg an open top b around london wh a megaphone, prottg Clse 28 - the banng of any tnal promotnal of homosexualy the UK.

MARK RYN, THE GAY 90S WT

Even though gay sex had been crimilised, Gary Abdie, David Godey, Mark Love, Jonathon Moore, Craig Turner, Norman Williams and Terry Connell were all nvicted unr sectn 13 of the 1956 Act bee more than two men had sex togehter, which still remaed illegal.

The 1990s showed real termatn and mobilisatn wh the gay muny.