Fellow gays! This quiz is to help you if you are uncerta which athetic is the bt f for you!
Contents:
- WHICH GAY/LBIAN ATHETIC IS MOST LIKE YOU?
- GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
- HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
WHICH GAY/LBIAN ATHETIC IS MOST LIKE YOU?
* gay aesthetic art *
Fellow gays! What would be your rponse to someone sayg somethg homophobic to you? It’s jarrg to thk that was only 50 years ago that male homosexualy was crimalized the UK.
Prr to 1967, hidg one’s sexualy was not jt a choice for gay men, but a necsy.
Known gay men like Osr Wil (who was later imprisoned bee of his sexualy) married women for social pretense, and psychiatrists offered dangero nversn therapi to those sperate to alter their orientatn. Polari, a secret Brish slang ed by gay men, for stance, allowed them to speak eely whout the fear of arrt. Gay artists (as well as artists believed to be gay) often explored homosexualy amic guis, such as through Greek mythology.
GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
1869) for example, hted at the sexual relatns between olr mentors and young men Ancient Greece, wh the sexual subtext of an terracial gay uple.
Gay rights: Greatly expand, 'impossibly agile'.
HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
Props like peack feathers and dyed green rnatns were worn on jacket lapels, athetic signifiers that allowed gay men to intify themselv – and each other – whout beg ught. As a gay man himself, Warhol was offerg a space for queer dienc wh the homophobic language of mastream Ameri. His work manipulat spac tradnally associated wh heterosexualy, like locker rooms, wh a queer athetic, ntug Warhol’s tradn of transformg the everyday to artistic s of gay male sire.