The followg is an excerpt om "Did You Sleep Wh the Mols?" by Sam Staggs, former edor of the gay magaz Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy.
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REVIEW: LACMA’S ‘XYZ’ ON ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: GAY ARTIST VS. STRAIGHT TRADN
Twenty-five years sce the photographer’s posthumo exhibn – which clud imag of gay S&M – beme a pot of bate, what have we learned? * was robert mapplethorpe gay *
Chartg his personal volvement New York’s gay scene, Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs monstrated a pellg perspective on the unrground queer culture of the 1970s and 1980s. Patti Smh's boyiend, the gay New York artist who died of AIDS, the man who took a picture of fistg and lled art: However you know of cult photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, 's strange that we know so ltle about the man himself.
Review: LACMA's 'XYZ' on Robert Mapplethorpe: Gay artist vs. straight tradn * was robert mapplethorpe gay *
Famed for shootg male nus, the sndal of the homoeroticism his pictur has overshadowed both the artist and work photos are strikg, even today still reasonably shockg, and unflchg.