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Contents:
- BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS
- BEYONCé DIT RENAISSANCE TO HER GAY UNCLE AND 'FALLEN ANGELS' OF CLUB CULTURE
- THE TWO GAY RENAISSANCE MEN REVOLUTNIZED HOW LGBT PEOPLE COMMUNITE
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
BEYONCé’S RENAISSANCE IS A BIG, GAY MS
Beyoncé dited new album 'Renaissance' to her gay uncle, Jonny, and 'fallen angels' of the club culture that spired the new mic. * renaissance gay mess *
Her latt album, “Renaissance, ” released on Friday, has been ld by members of the LGBTQ muny as the fg album of the of the release of Beyoncé’s seventh stud album, the sger dited “Renaissance” to her children and hband, her late gay Uncle Jonny and LGBTQ change-makers who have shaped Black popular culture. In her speech, she said Jonny was “the most fabulo gay man I’ve ever known.
BEYONCé DIT RENAISSANCE TO HER GAY UNCLE AND 'FALLEN ANGELS' OF CLUB CULTURE
“Beyoncé puttg out an album that’s a love letter to the gays right as republins are attemptg to rcd the right for the LGBTQ muny to get married is why she’s the bt mic artist of our generatn, ” thor and podst host Akilah Hugh wrote on 16 tracks “Renaissance” draw om hoe, dis and bounce mic, genr that hark back to unrground ballroom culture om the 1970s. She really prentg the last twenty years of cultural signifince black gay men have had on pop culture. “Break My Soul, ” which has been celebrated as a gay anthem, was Beyoncé’s send llaboratn wh Big Freedia.
THE TWO GAY RENAISSANCE MEN REVOLUTNIZED HOW LGBT PEOPLE COMMUNITE
In the fal four s of the fifteenth century, 17, 000 Florente men had been acced of sodomy by the Office of the Night (an stutn found to vtigate homosexual relatns). However, sheer statistics unrme the plex dynamics of homosexual relatns fifteenth-century Florence. Unrstandgs of Ancient Greek thought provid a amework for Florente men to engage wh homosexual relatns, creatg a disurse that uld both jtify and nmn their actns.
In the ntext of Florente male homosexual culture, the Neoplatonic ncept of love provid a route to expla and jtify sodomy.
Male homosexualy Florence was wispread, and relatively accepted as long as followed existg relatns of power, spe Church doctre nouncg the practice. This meant the most mon form of male homosexual relatns was perasty, an “active” olr male and a “passive” adolcent. Whilst the Neoplatonic ia of love uld jtify male homosexualy, uld nmn too.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
This shift monstrat Neoplatonic ias on love uld be ed to nmn, as well as expla, the culture surroundg male homosexual culture. The ambiguy of the relatnship between Neoplatonic love and male homosexual culture is fully revealed through the work of Michelangelo.
Michelangelo was likely a homosexual and showed ep affectn towards Tommaso ’ Cavalieri, a young Italian nobleman. Michelangelo’s plex relatnship wh Cavalieri, and homosexualy more broadly, is suggted his Ganyme and Tyos, a pair of imag which make explic e of Neoplatonist thought. In the piec, Michelangelo ed Neoplatonic love to both jtify and nmn male homosexual behavur.