PHAG 4 - Gay Art Prott – Pan Art Gallery

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

”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?

“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.

PHAG 4 - GAY ART PROTT

Sce memorable tim, art and the stggle for gay rights have had a strong lk through mms, galleri and exhibns.

ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL

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.

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.

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.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Gay art has always been an tegral part of the LGBTQ+ movement, servg as a means of prott and a tool for social change. From ancient Greece to morn tim, gay artists have ed their work to exprs their inti and advote for their rights. One of the most famo exampl of gay art as prott is Michelangelo's David.

David's nudy has been terpreted as a celebratn of the male form, and when takg unr nsiratn the sexual ambiguy of the character of David the bible, and the fact that Florence was at the time a hub for homosexuals om all over Europe, queerly exprs here more than jt male figure by Michelangelo.

Schiele's patgs and drawgs often featured male nus and homoerotic imagery, which were nsired sndalo at the time.