Gay Garns – John B. Aird Gallery

Contents:

• GAY GARNS
• SAYG GOODBYE TO “GAY GARNS,” A PLANT-FILLED SEATTLE RENTAL
• A SEATTLE COTTAGE, LOVGLY CHRISTENED “GAY GARNS”
• THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’
• GAY ATHENS

GAY GARNS

Our jury of Gay Garn experts, Jowenne Herrera and curator Patrick DeCoste, selected works om var mediums and subjects to be a part of our onle garn exhibn/publitn. While viewg our Gay Garns publitn, we highly remend listeng to I Beg Your Pardon, I Never Promised You A Rose Garn by Lynn Anrson. Name: Matthew Mirarchi and JoJo the pup Lotn: Wt Seattle — Seattle, Washgton Size: 1, 000 square feet Years Lived In: 2 years, rentg “Gay Garns is my plant-filled genie bottle, ” nfs Matthew.

Havg been overgrown and woefully mismanaged for years, Gay Garns afford me the opportuny to rebuild after my divorce; need a lot of TLC, and so did I. Matthew explas: “When nstctn began on a velopment of ln dollar hom two lots over om my forted oasis, and I saw multiple other renters on my street movg out as their most ho were sold to box hoe velopers, I knew my time at Gay Garns was g to a close.

SAYG GOODBYE TO “GAY GARNS,” A PLANT-FILLED SEATTLE RENTAL

That way, Gay Garns will live on even after s walls e crashg down.

I love old wdows, and Gay Garns retaed all of s origal am and wavy glass.

Like a lot of hom my neighborhood, Gay Garns was origally built the ’30s as a ty weekend retreat — not be to habed year-round. Gay Garns tght me a lot about what I n acplish wh a ltle visn, a lot of sweat, and plenty of expletive-lan phras.

A SEATTLE COTTAGE, LOVGLY CHRISTENED “GAY GARNS”

But, there’s a park the heart of the cy, and not far om Denver’s inic gayborhood Capol Hill, that has more than pop-up volleyball urts and hammocks. I was young and to arts and culture and movg profsnally to the theater and g out as gay. I was terrified that somebody would fd out I was gay.

I went to my first gay bar, Hatfield's, on Queens Boulevard. I was standg on Queens Boulevard and cryg and my iend manfully wiped away my tears and then said, "Well, there's another gay bar down the street.

THE GAYT MOVI THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY GAY, OM ‘BARBIE’ AND ‘BURLQUE’ TO ‘VENOM’ AND ‘ROAD HOE’

So we went to this other gay bar lled Breadstix.

I'm not the only gay du the neighborhood. How would I meet other gay men any other ntext?

There were some issu my fay around my g out so I moved out at the start of my sophomore year of llege. I didn't have a good sense of my own inty other than the fact that I knew that I was gay.

GAY ATHENS

And I would go gallivantg down Washgton Square South or down LaGuardia Place bee I thought that's what gay was, until I got a lot of that out of my system and then realized that felt really forced and performative and put on, and not a reflectn of whoever I was or whoever I wanted to bee. I am not any way speakg ill of gay men who are, to e the term, flamboyant. People should exprs themselv whatever way they see f, however and whoever they are, but I had to go through a phase of turng up the flamboyance to 11 orr to figure out exactly who I was as a young gay man.

There are still parts of this untry where you n't be a teacher and be out and gay, but 30 years ago was fely not ol.

There was a wonrful gay bar on St.