I Was Part of 303 Creative's Case. I Back Gay Marriage—but SCOTUS Is Right

Contents:

• CELLA SHOWS THAT DISNEY IS STILL STGGLG TO GET S “FIRST GAY CHARACTER” RIGHT
• 3 - FEME BOY TO GAY MAN: A CONVERSATN WH ARTY MORTY
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• ARE GAY MEN ARTISTIC? A REVIEW OF THE LERATURE
• WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

CELLA SHOWS THAT DISNEY IS STILL STGGLG TO GET S “FIRST GAY CHARACTER” RIGHT

Not only is Disney not a lear on this issue, ’s quickly fallg Carell on the geni of the mnsOffEnglishFor Cella, the le is that Artie (John McCrea) is Disney’s first “major” gay character, which is only te if you don’t unt Josh Gad’s LeFou the live-actn Bety And The Beast. ’s Gay while Artie’s sexual inty is fixed McCrea’s head, the fact that “glam” and “gay” are not and never were synonymo also giv Disney an easy out.

Determed to appeal to as many mographics as possible, the pany crav posive prs for s clivy, but is too timid to openly thumb s nose at the homophob the dience.

3 - FEME BOY TO GAY MAN: A CONVERSATN WH ARTY MORTY

Artie’s part n’t be cut out of Cella as easily as the “exclively gay moment” Bety And The Beast, which lasts for lerally two sends. But if was challenged by censors say, Cha, where homosexualy is legal but films wh LGBTQ+ them are still subject to cuts, plsible niabily about Artie’s sexualy uld still be mataed. McCrea has said terviews that the character was origally wrten as a drag queen, a form of exprsn that n’t be so easily untangled om gay culture.

” If a LGBTQ+ character’s spoe is ad, even better—like the much-ballyhooed “first gay character the MCU, ” a trmatized man Avengers: Endgame who tells a support group about how he burst to tears on a date five years after losg his hband to Thanos’ LGBTQ+ uple n appear together on screen if the characters don’t speak, like the moms seen the background pickg their kid up om school Toy Story 4 or the squabblg antelop Zootopia you wouldn’t know are married unls you pay close attentn to the creds.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

But even fictn, where the jtic and equali of the real world only apply if a creator puts them there, a person like Artie is a means to an end—for Cella and for has learned a few thgs over s eight attempts to get s “first” LGBTQ+ character right: Unlike Jack Whehall, the straight actor st as Jungle Cise’s “first major gay character, ” McCrea intifi as a gay man, which mak the bejeweled pill of his Cella character a ltle easier to swallow.

ARE GAY MEN ARTISTIC? A REVIEW OF THE LERATURE

The character received cricism for supposedly beg Disney's "first" gay character, spe many prr characters also beg referred to by that tle. The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat. Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth.

While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir.

WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART

Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men. Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love. It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself.

In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto. In the 'Gay Corner' of the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, you will fd the name of Anto scribed on an obelisk unr the shady branch of a cherry tree. Although art historians and others have documented the substantial ntributn to art ma by gay men, the existence of a unique gay sensibily remas ntroversial.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

Mental health practners who work wh gay men have addrsed athetic sensibily the childhood of gay men, but not the role of art their adult liv. A lerature search on the relatnship between homosexualy and artistic abily and/or achievement shows that there is ltle scientific data addrsg this subject.

It did not stop the great paters of the Renaissance, many of whom are today acknowledged as gay, om portrayg the sexual allure of famoly, the var versns of St Sebastian’s martyrdom, showg a spicly mcular torso punctured by arrows, achieved inic stat among homosexual admirers who rpond not only to his physil bety, but also to his plight as a tortured, yet steadfast, martyr.