New Subway Statn Has Public Art Rarely Seen: A Gay Couple

Contents:

• ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?
• MATURE GAY UPLE HOLDG HANDS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• NEW SUBWAY STATN HAS PUBLIC ART RARELY SEEN: A GAY COUPLE
• GAY UPLE HOLDG HANDS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• DUTCH MEN HOLD HANDS SOLIDARY WH GAY UPLE

ARE YOUR HANDS GAY?

The sight of two men holdg hands is far om unmon, but a mural of two men dog jt that is showg up an unual place—on the walls of a new subway statn New York Send Avenue Subway statn at 72nd Street New York featur a mural of Thor Stockman, left, and his hband, Patrick York Metropolan Transportatn Authory via APThat pictn of love between gay men is a rary public art, experts say.

He mentned Gee Segal's "Gay Liberatn Monument" near Stonewall Inn, the se of the 1969 rts that lnched the gay rights movement. A work like Muniz's is long overdue a cy "ostensibly the epicenter of both the art world and the gay movement, " said Katz, director of the doctoral program visual culture studi at SUNY Buffalo and the former executive ordator of the Larry Kramer Iniative for Lbian and Gay Studi at Yale Stockman, right, and Patrick Kellogg pose for a portra their apartment New York on Dec.

MATURE GAY UPLE HOLDG HANDS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

21, Wenig / AP"What mak a turng pot is isn't gayns sgled out and ma the theme. On the ntrary, the work naturaliz gayns wh the fabric of the cy, and so dog, that's actually an even more powerful msage, " he said. "The work remds me that 's a mon occurrence to see a gay uple holdg hands wag on a subway platform New York Cy.

"It wasn't until earlier this year that they were told their image would be among those gog up the new statn, and they were asked to keep unr wraps as the specifics of the art stallatns hadn't gone public they were fally able to tell their iends, the reactn was joyo, said Kellogg, 47, and not only for the two of them but bee was the kd of image of a gay uple that's not often seen pop culture. "Our iends were happy that this is gay reprentatn on the walls of New York Cy, but our iends were even happier that this is gay reprentatn that is not credibly betiful and skny, " Kellogg said, as Stockman add, "That they were jt average-lookg guys like .

NEW SUBWAY STATN HAS PUBLIC ART RARELY SEEN: A GAY COUPLE

When I was younger, I thought that beg gay was somethg terribly wrong. I enuntered homophobia everywhere -- sports, school, the media. I ternalized the homophobia until beme a part of me.

I pretend to be straight and passed as such sce I did not exemplify the stereotyp, held by many of those around me, of what meant to be a gay man. I was still burned by the homophobia that had eply impacted me throughout my life. Dpe beg a target of homophobia throughout his life, Ryan projected a sense of surens who he was.

I will ntue to stggle wh beg fully fortable as a gay man, and I accept that. I was stg outsi a fé Hamburg’s “gay street”,.

GAY UPLE HOLDG HANDS STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

A gay man myself, I. not all them were gay or would have nsired themselv gay. For the rerd, Robert isn’t gay.

partner and I thought we’d stumbled on a lol gay fé downtown Bssels.

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DUTCH MEN HOLD HANDS SOLIDARY WH GAY UPLE

people fear beg jeered at or worse, gay-bashed. whether gay or straight, have different tak on .

Ben, a sixty-three-year-old veteran gay activist, told me that he was always. enuragg to hear all the affirmatns of gay relatnships.

Even gay men have rervatns about other gays holdg hands public. Gay men who are not publicly out, and may. Sgle gays may feel env.