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Contents:

• GAY INTERT
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK
• GAY GOTHAM
• GAY GOTHAM: WHEN THE BIG APPLE WAS PK, NOT RED
• NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY
• GAY GOTHAM AT MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

GAY INTERT

Unverg the lost history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists New York Cy. Gay Gotham brgs to life the untercultural artistic muni that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radil ias would terme much of morn culture.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK

Category: Social Science - LGBTQ+ Studi - Gay Studi.

GAY GOTHAM

"—The New York Tim"As Gay Gotham admirably documents, 20th-century New York pneerg gay and lbian artists had to cultivate works of patrons, mentors, peers, and lovers to fd need validatn and support.

"—Gay And Lbian Review "This timate look si a century of gay unterculture is rivetg... "—Metrosource NY"A book that not only celebrat a vibrant and sometim heartbreakg movement and cy, but also enpsulat for future generatns"—Indulge Magaze"This volume is a visual extravaganza of rare photographs and art om the gay unrgrounds; rcu and explor GLBTQueer history that has been summarily erased or ignored but is nohels an lible part of New York’s arts and cultural herage. Unrver's gut curator Donald Albrecht's book Gay Gotham unvers the lost history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists New York Cy.

GAY GOTHAM: WHEN THE BIG APPLE WAS PK, NOT RED

As a queer artist whose illtratns for a mastream dience often had unspoken queer unrton, his work is pecially revealg for what says about the cultural attus towards homosexualy of the perd.

In Depth: Panel Discsn on Photography and Homoerotic Dire. BFA Photography and Vio and the Mm of the Cy of New York prent a panel discsn on how homoerotic photography found s way to New York Cy galleri and mms the 1970s. Listeng to Gay Gotham.

Gay Gotham curators Stephen Vir and Donald Albrecht found a unique way to do that by workg wh actors to perform readgs of the works of Richard Bce Nugent and Merces Asta, featured on d statns the exhibn. Gay Gotham.

NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY

This 304-page book acpanied the exhibn of the same name and unvered the lost history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists New York Cy. Gay Gotham brought to life the untercultural artistic muni that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radil ias would terme much of morn culture. Gay Gotham was a 2016 Lambda Lerary Award falist for LGBTQ nonfictn.

This timate look si a century of gay unterculture is rivetg, and even 2016 feels like learng the sndalo tth behd often whispered about secrets. Even those who thk they unrstand how revolutnary ias make their way om the LGBT unrground to the mastream will fd surpris as Gay Gotham brgs to light the cliqu and creatns of a plex subculture.

After the Pulse Nightclub massacre and the electn of a very gay uniendly pair of ndidat, we thought the worst was over. Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture is an exhib currently on display the Mm of the Cy of New York.

GAY GOTHAM AT MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK

The show is one that celebrat the fluence of the LGBTQ muny New York Cy and go as far back as the early 1900s to do New York is already famo and celebrated for s gay history, there are many people and stori that have gone unregnized. "I noticed the gay works, the muni, and how vibrant they were, " said Donald Albrecht, -curator of the exhib. Some of the subjects are still well-known today like RuPl, Andy Warhol, and Mae Wt, while others are lser known gems like femist artist Harmony Hammond and trans artist Greer out Gay Gotham, nng until Febary 26 the Mm of the Cy of New York.

Luckily, that semal moment LGBT culture was ptured on film, and you n now see at the Mm of the Cy of New York, as part of s brilliant new exhibn “Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, ” a show about queer life, culture and art New York Cy om early-20th century through the 1990s.

Curated by MCNY curator of archecture and sign Donald Albrecht wh historian Stephen Vir, MCNY Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, “Gay Gotham” is a fascatg look at the impact and ntributn of LGBT artists to New York's cultural life, and by extensn, to the entire untry's cultural and social life. “Gay Gotham” is divid to three major chronologil sectns: “Visible Subcultur” vers the early 1910s to the 1930s, and tak a look at how gay life flourished neighborhoods like Harlem and Greenwich Village.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK

The first gallery opens wh artist and wrer Richard Bce Nugent, the most openly gay figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Leonard Bernste, the most proment artist here, exemplifi the challeng gay artists faced post-World War II Ameri: a voted hband to Chilean actrs Felicia Cohn Montealegre and father of three children, Bernste never me out publicly wh fear of damagg his reer. On the oppose wall, an credible seri of polaroid-sized photographs taken by an anonymo photographer on the streets of New York Cy the '60s: boyiends huggg, a stylish gay wboy, some old-fashned cisg on 5th Avenue, and a man tight jeans and proud of his erectn dite the closet bubble is about to burst.

Upstairs, “Out New York” vers the years leadg up to Stonewall until the mid-1990s, an era when anti-homophobia activism grew stronger; rpons the fight agast AIDS changed art forever; and the “we're here, we're queer, get ed to ” mentaly was born. It also shows a clip om 1932's “Call Her Savage, ” the first film to pict a gay bar, illtratg the fluence of New York's cultural queer scene Hollywood.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK

The elegant sign by archect Joel Sanrs adds a great al of texture to the exhibn's narrative: most of the artwork hangs around the perimeter circle of the galleri, while maps that “charter an evolvg gay geography of New York” are featured the center.

The walls are pated lavenr: dark and ep for the gallery verg the years before Stonewall, and lighter for the years after, when gay life beme more visible. Warhol was also iends wh Charl Henri Ford, who -wrote the gay lerary classic “Young and Evil” wh Parker Tyler 1933 (on display at the exhibn), and whose work of iends clud Carl Van Vecthen, Gee Platt Lyn and Cecil Beaton. A stunng 304-page book, Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, published by Skyra Rizoli and wrten by Donald Albrecht wh Stephen Vir, acpani the exhibn.

“Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, ” ns through Febary 26, 2017 at the Mm of the Cy of New York. The John Burton Harter Foundatn has given a grant supportg the Mm of the Cy of New York’s exhibn Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

Gay Gotham explor queer creative works New York Cy and their fluence over the 20th century.