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As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture.

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Why Donatello’s famoly androgyno sculpture of “David” should be tepreted as a reflectn of gay culture Renaissance Florence." data-reactroot=" * gay art sculpture *

Donatello moled the heads of many of his sculptur and statu om Roman bts, and art historians now generally believe that David’s was based on Anto, Emperor Hadrian’s gay lover.

Janson first posed that the artist himself was gay (or at least mored to be) 1957, and that Donatello’s personal bgraphy drove his homoerotic pictn of David. Janson’s alln to Donatello’s homosexualy, and his suggtn that the artist’s inty might have played a part this masterpiece, put cril nos out of jot. Yet this reactn was particularly rash, nsirg that 15th-century Florence was nsired a gay mec.

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Florence had such a reputatn for beg acceptg of homosexualy that the French lled gay sex the “Florente Vice, ” and Germany, Florenzer was slang for a sodome.

Conservative monks railed agast this acceptance for more than moral reasons, worryg that the growg trend of homosexual relatns between unmarried men would lead to a cy-wi populatn cle. The enigmatic actor, art llector, gay activist, globetrotter, and doyenne of the SoHo scene has, along wh his late partner J.

Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster Street.Poor, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through.

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This somewhat jad crew of crics was ankly awed to fd every available surface the dky, crimson Prce Street loft absolutely vered—let me repeat: vered—wh explicly homoerotic art all styl and media, cludg var se-specific murals.Charl Llie’s livg room table featur var crystal and ceramic penis as well as an ivory-and-brass dildo, or gomiché, om the Edo perd Japan.

At the start of his and Lohman’s llectg days, more than 60 years ago, “gay imagery was unfortunately the hands of pornographers exclively,” Llie lamented.

Photo by Max Burkhalter for Artsy.His wi-rangg llectn gently illtrat the changg landspe of public gay life and the civil rights advanc crementally gaed sce he began discreetly buyg homoerotic art the 1950s.

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