After more than 20 years givg gay artists a place to show their artwork, David Allen is listed the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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- DAVID ALLEN, FOUNR OF MEN ON MEN GAY ART PRIZE, AWARD QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOUR
- THE BT GAY BARS MELBOURNE
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS MELBOURNE
- GAY MELBOURNE · CY GUI
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
- MELBOURNE GAY DANCE CLUBS
- MELBOURNE GAY MAP
DAVID ALLEN, FOUNR OF MEN ON MEN GAY ART PRIZE, AWARD QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOUR
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Ponch Hawk, No tle (Two women embracg, 'Glad to be gay') 1973; prted 2018 gelat silver photograph, Natnal Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. What began as a rearch project by curators followg the ntroversial natnal plebisce on gay marriage 2017 has sparked an stutn-wi reappraisal of s llectns.
A broad sweep of history is reflected objects om Ancient Greece to f--siècle dandyism and emergg 20th-century queer activism such as Gilbert Baker’s rabow flag (first flown durg San Francis’s 1978 Gay Freedom Day Para) and inic stum by Melbourne-born artist Leigh Bowery. Hannah Brontë’s work Umma’s Tongue – molten at 6000° is spired, acrdg to the artist, by ‘the magic of ftivals, sweaty gay dance floors and chosen fai… I want to honour all the powerful LGBTQIA+ humans who me before me and fought hard to revolutnise the reprentatn of what looks like to be ’.
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(Supplied: 1770 Art Show and Competn)The lnch of Men on MenIn 2001, Mr Allen and his partner Ron Watks found a gay art prize tled Men on Men Art Exhibn and Competn when they were nng The Laird Hotel Collgwood, pub is one of the longt nng gay-owned and operated venu Atralia and many of Mr Allen's regulars at the time were volved the arts, but unable to fd spac to display their work. (Instagram: The Laird, Melbourne)"Back the early 2000s, was very difficult to get to art galleri at any rate, let alone if you were g om a gay perspective, " Mr Allen said. "We had a lot of gay ctomers who were artists and they were really stgglg to fd plac where they uld exhib their artworks, so we created one.
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