Charl Llie’s passnate half-century of homoerotic art llectg offers a mirror for the history of gay history self
Contents:
- WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
- THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
- HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
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The "Queer Threads" exhibn, which ran early 2014, examed the diversy of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer experienc. From the stage of the Founrs’ Day celebratn of the Llie + Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, the octogenarian art llector addrsed the r crowd there to celebrate the upg expansn of the mm he tablished– a major tone that will double size the world’s first and only mm dited to gay art.
But before discsg the future, Llie wanted to talk about the origs of his llectn of homoerotic work.
THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
The rt, ed, was history: thoands of years of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, ignored and relegated to circumscribed footnot, if that.
Or as the print of the mm’s board of directors, art historian Jonathan David Katz, puts , Llie “enpsulat the cultural tennci” of more than half a century of gay historic activism. Growg up a small town durg the Deprsn, Llie’s exposure to gayns as an inty was limed to what he uld glean om the encyclopedia. Aware of his own sexual sir om an early age, he left for Los Angel as soon as he uld, where he easily fell wh s sub rosa gay muny.
But was Europe that ma him realize there was such a thg as “gay history” – and that much of that history was only prerved art. “We ma the disvery early on that we'd both been discreet llectors of gay imagery, ” Llie says.
HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE
His rourc, bed wh Llie’s nnectns to the theater and art worlds, enabled them to amass a trove of gay art.
WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
“Charl [Llie] has always been fundamentally foced on the homoerotic, which he unrstands as the most dissint form of art makg, ” says Katz, “bee by fn has been historilly exclud.