The Gayt Imag om Michelangelo's Most Famo Patg

Contents:

• THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG
• THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
• GAY KUNST PATGS
• GAY WATER — CYNIL, PAT-BY-NUMBERS VIRTUE-SURFG START-UP? OR BEVERAGE INDTRY UNIRN WH GIFT OF GAY RIGHTS?
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG

The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat.

The relatnships were not what we would today ll homosexual.

Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth. Some patrons may have requted a versn of the Ganyme myth as an exprsn of their homosexual sir.

THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE

In poetry, plays, and even mon parlance, Ganyme me to stand for both paedophilic and homosexual tast.

Homosexualy the morn sense was only named and acknowledged the late neteenth century.

While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir. Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men. Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love.

GAY KUNST PATGS

It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself.

For homosexual Grand Tourists, Anto proved irristible. In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto. By the late neteenth century, Anto had e to replace Ganyme as the in of choice for gay art llectors.

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Yet the stori of the two gay ins ntued to speak to gay men. It is no wonr the stori of Anto and Ganyme spoke strongly to gay men tim when their love was illegal.

In the 'Gay Corner' of the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, you will fd the name of Anto scribed on an obelisk unr the shady branch of a cherry tree.

An Italian art historian claims some of the imag picted Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"—the on the wall of the Siste Chapel—were spired by acts the artist wnsed homosexual bathho. ) Lazzari go on to say that Michelangelo drew spiratn om his fellow gays and the mcular prostut who regularly worked the lossal work, which took the Renaissance master four years to pat and grac the Siste Chapel Vatin Cy, is a pictn of judgment day, wh the virtuo beg lled to heaven and sners beg dragged to hell. Nope, nothg gay happeng here.

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