There are two ways to get your plard noticed at a gay rights prott: be cute or be funny. Ahead of the Guardian Weekend magaze gay issue, out Saturday 21 April, we pay tribute to the bt gay rights prottg plards
Contents:
- 5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS OM ART
- PHAG 4 - GAY ART PROTT
- ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
- BIG PICTURE: 'GOD HAT SIGNS' - GAY RIGHTS PROTTERS' PLARDS
- THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS OM ART
Beg this first gay art gallery Israel we are not tached om current events, cludg protts agast the crimal judicial reform, which would turn Israel to a dictatorship. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Hadas Pash (@hadaspash) Gay art has always been an tegral part of the LGBTQ+ move * gay protest art *
”New York artist and activist Donna Gottschalk memorably penned those words on a plard durg the first Gay Liberatn event on June 28, 1970 – the first anniversary of the Stonewall rts.
It was a statement of bold nfince, a reclamatn of self om a society that had been actively crimalisg and pathologisg homosexualy sce the word appeared for the first time Richard von Krafft-Ebg’s Psychopathia Sexualis (1892) om a reprsive, regrsive regime, queer art beme a channel to which people uld nnect and exprs themselv. “Homosexualy or queerns is a lot more than a matter of sex. “I terviewed Pl Cadm the ’90s and asked, ‘What was like to be a homosexual pater the 1930s?
PHAG 4 - GAY ART PROTT
"For the people to publicly make a statement that they were gay or lbian was this enormo risk for them — they uld have lost everythg." * gay protest art *
“He said, ‘We never ed the word ‘homosexual’, we jt ed the word “artist” and no one expects an artist to behave like a bsman.
In Brazil, the word er (‘veado’) is monly ed as slang to sult gay men, 2017.
Sce memorable tim, art and the stggle for gay rights have had a strong lk through mms, galleri and exhibns. Harg acplished more than jt exhibg mms; he raised awarens society about the social that mattered to him, homosexualy and AIDS. And Suzanne Kissg at Euthanasia (1981) to fd the timate, warm and empathetic eye to gay love of the artist who received the 2007 Hasselblad Foundatn Internatnal Award.
ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
It was 1970 that the artist fed his homosexualy and began his most important artistic stage: the explic male nu. Acclaimed for her exhibns at the Guggenheim Mm (New York) and the Instute of Contemporary Art (Boston), she do not leave her terts behd; imag that reaffirm homosexual pri the world.
BIG PICTURE: 'GOD HAT SIGNS' - GAY RIGHTS PROTTERS' PLARDS
” The rult of their llaboratn, a hot pk triangle (an verted versn of the symbol Nazis ed to label gay men) emblazoned on a black background above the slogan “Silence = Death, ” ma s but 1987. His spiratn sprang om the huge backlog of found imagery he kept on hand, om classil sculpture to gay porn and breakg news photos. After all, he me to promence 1970s New York, at the dawn of punk, when ath and stctn were a lgua an, and the gay cultural i that most trigued him durg his reer — cut short when he died at 42 1989 om AIDS plitns — was fed by satanic-tged black-leather sadomasochism.
THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
This is an artist who built a whole body of work about beg a gay, erotic, sexual beg, and for him to acknowledge his own life’s end this way — ’s jt an credibly tense moment. (The image also appears Wojnarowicz’s 1986-87 short film, “A Fire My Belly, ” which was censored as recently as 2010, durg an exhibn of gay art at the Natnal Portra Gallery Washgton D.
Beg this first gay art gallery Israel we are not tached om current events, cludg protts agast the crimal judicial reform, which would turn Israel to a dictatorship.
Gay art has always been an tegral part of the LGBTQ+ movement, servg as a means of prott and a tool for social change.