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The Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art’s latt exhibn, Cut-Ups: Queer Collage Practic divulg some spectacular exampl of queer llage om s past — so spectacular that they threaten to outshe the ntemporary works on view. The fabric doubl over self and grows to somethg larger that transcends the hackneyed homoerotic imagery found pornography. Ultimately, this is what signals the te power of gay llage — not s abily to nstct new worlds for inty and fetish to fter, but to nstct te fantasi.
Cut-Ups: Queer Collage Practic ntu at the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art (26 Wooster St, Soho, Manhattan) through December 18. They look like relatively simple flat patgs, but the procs mak them very plited to driv you to document LGBTQ spac, as you did your project The UK Gay Bar Directory? We started filmg gay bars wh a GoPro mera 2014, wh no particular oute md.
Before we knew Candy Bar, the Gee and Dragon, and Joers Arms—all by, succsful, and culturally important gay bars London—had shut their doors followed by a spate of other closur natnally. K., forcg ourselv to male-domant or male-only spac, filmg gay bars, and creatg an archive that would functn both as an art work, a public rource, and a ll to arms.
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Often, we would arrive a cy and a much-loved gay bar had closed s doors only days before. We explore how the ntemporary gay rights movement has aligned self wh the state, the police, the ary, and wh property velopers at the expense of s own muny. In the last 50 years alone, Keh Harg’s drawgs have raised awarens for the AIDS crisis of the ’80s; Nan Gold’s hntg photographs of New York’s unrbelly has shed light on the queer muny; Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the public wh his graphic imag of gay sex acts, promptg a revaluatn of bety and propriety.