Why Donatello’s famoly androgyno sculpture of “David” should be tepreted as a reflectn of gay culture Renaissance Florence." data-reactroot="
Contents:
- WHY AM I "SO GAY?"
- MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS
WHY AM I "SO GAY?"
* why is david so gay *
Do anyone else thk David might be gay? Donatello moled the heads of many of his sculptur and statu om Roman bts, and art historians now generally believe that David’s was based on Anto, Emperor Hadrian’s gay lover. Janson first posed that the artist himself was gay (or at least mored to be) 1957, and that Donatello’s personal bgraphy drove his homoerotic pictn of David.
MORE THAN HALF OF GENERATN Z GAY, BISEXUAL TEENAGE BOYS REPORT BEG OUT TO PARENTS
Was David Gay? Some have argued Kg David was relatnship wh Jonathan due to some of the words ed to scribe his iendship wh him the Bible. * why is david so gay *
Janson’s alln to Donatello’s homosexualy, and his suggtn that the artist’s inty might have played a part this masterpiece, put cril nos out of jot. Yet this reactn was particularly rash, nsirg that 15th-century Florence was nsired a gay mec.
Florence had such a reputatn for beg acceptg of homosexualy that the French lled gay sex the “Florente Vice, ” and Germany, Florenzer was slang for a sodome. Conservative monks railed agast this acceptance for more than moral reasons, worryg that the growg trend of homosexual relatns between unmarried men would lead to a cy-wi populatn cle.
Ever sce middle school, people have asked Thomas Lloyd the same qutn repeatedly. "If I had a dime for every time I was asked, 'Why am I so gay?' I uld probably pay for one cred at Geetown." In this humoro talk, Lloyd explor the trici of social "verg" as a gay man, fdg muny and the importance of inty ownership. * why is david so gay *
Regardg the Apparent Reveal That David Kg is Gay. "Not a homophobe, but" person when a past character is revealed to be LGBT+: "That is such lazy wrg jt to panr to people! They jt took this character and ma them gay jt bee they wanted to look good!
Like, why didn't they create a whole new character (I uld try to ignore) if they wanted to reprent LBGT people stead of g one of my favor like this by makg them gay out of nowhere (regardls of any potential hts beforehand)?! Those same people if they had tried makg a new LGBT+ character, no matter how nuanced: "Can you believe they created a character JUST TO BE GAY?