Nicholas Buffon discs pturg gay history and New York's "yed and changg prent" his exhibn at Poets Hoe, on view through November 20.
Contents:
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BUFFON
- GAY NEW YORK: AN INTERVIEW WH ARTIST NICHOLAS BUFFON
- SIGNAL NO. 2 UP TWO AREAS AS TYPHOON EGAY SET TO MAKE LANDFALL BATAN OR CAGAYAN
EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS BUFFON
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From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! This year, Poets Hoe honors the 200th birthday of Walt Whman—one of New York’s great gay poets—and celebrat the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, wily nsired to have gurated the morn LGBTQ liberatn movements, wh Gay New York: Walt Whman to the Prent, an exhibn of artwork by Nicholas Buffon, on view through November 30.
NB: Whman is a figure I was briefly obssed wh when first lookg for gay role mols as a young teenager.
VC: Especially the Village, so many gay landmarks have been molished; survivg tablishments, such as the Stonewall Inn and Juli’, have bee muny centers specifilly bee of their longevy—but they’re the exceptn to the le. By patg prent-day Han’s Deli and 99 Ryerson Street, are you also reclaimg the spac’ gay history? NB: I’m pretty lax and maybe a ltle eager about what I would nsir gay history.
GAY NEW YORK: AN INTERVIEW WH ARTIST NICHOLAS BUFFON
A gay bar ed to be loted there? Gay history!
I put a Pete Buttigieg poster the wdow to really tie the patg to 2019, and while he’s not perfect, I thk Whman would have been fascated that a gay man is nng for print.
SIGNAL NO. 2 UP TWO AREAS AS TYPHOON EGAY SET TO MAKE LANDFALL BATAN OR CAGAYAN
How your work do you exame the foundatns of gay muny through your posn wh ? While I have a wi circle of iends, I am not always at gay bars nor am I on cisg apps.
I watch all the gay movi but I’m not a big nsumer of gay pop culture. I started the gay bar project by pictg the bars I do equent, then expand my to clu any gay bar wh an tertg exterr. I ma some se-specific gay bars for a show Akron, Oh, g photos om the ter, then vised them when I went to the show.
What is about Whman’s legacy that speaks so strongly both to gay experience and to a uniquely Amerin inty, that he’s still wily read by those who might otherwise fd poetry accsible? NB: Gay New York is the first stutnal show I’ve done and was very excg to put together. NB: Sce Gay New York opened at Poets Hoe I’ve been workg on a seri of phone and tablet replis on pe panel that have imag by LGBT artists as backgrounds.