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Contents:

• HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN
• SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE
• HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE

HOW DID A THIRD-CENTURY CATHOLIC SAT BEE A GAY IN? HERE’S THE HOMOEROTIC HISTORY OF SAT SEBASTIAN

In an UK Gay News op-ed piece, Baker wrote: “In my view the rabow flag is unfished, as the movement reprents, an arc that begs well before me, s breadth far broar than all of our experienc put together, reachg the fartht rners of the world wh a msage of solidary and a bean of hope for those who follow our footsteps.

Gay prisoners Nazi ncentratn mps were forced to wear the pk triangle to show that they were homosexuals, which meant that they often received worse treatment and as a rult were ls likely to survive the mps.

SYMBOLS OF GAY AND LBIAN CULTURE

Though not everyone embrac the pk triangle as a posive symbol of gay pri, the triangle and verted triangle have gone through untls variatns and rema popular. Like the rabow flag, the pk triangle is now an image found on pri badg, stickers, and t-shirts, and is a mon symbol ed to advertise gay-iendly events and activi.

In an era before the femist and gay liberatn movements, the sensatnalized imag on the books’ vers were often the only way for women to read about lbianism. Like other sleazy publitns of the 50s and 60s, gay pulp fictn vers showed a fantasy world full of absurd clichés, sctive pos, and mcular bare chts. While today pulp novels may seem lghably over-the-top, they are nohels important pop culture reprentatns of gays and lbians art.

Born New Jersey 1954, David Wojnarowicz endured an extremely abive fay life, stggled wh beg a gay youth and subsequently dropped out of high school by the age of 16. His art reflected that grief, anger, tratn and fear by drawg attentn to Amerin relig fundamentalism, nservatism, fear of the body, homophobia, enomic imperialism, all while raisg up the voic of margalized and stigmatized dividuals.

HIDN PLA SIGHT: HOW GAY ARTISTS EXPRSED FORBIDN SIRE

Unapologetic about his homosexualy, Warhol often produced erotic photography and male nus, and his work was heavily fluenced by gay unrground culture. They are perhaps most famo for their image of three terracial upl (straight, gay and lbian) kissg above the ptn “Kissg Don’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, ” as well as their work at the 1990 Venice Biennale where they juxtaposed two billboards: the image of the Pope wh a text about the church’s anti-safe-sex rhetoric; the other a two-foot-high erect penis wh texts about women and ndom e. A sculpture pictg the gay Athenian warrr lovers was the very first upright statue set up a cy plaza and the first statue that paid tribute public to mortal hero rather than god-like or dive hero.

Tradnally, the symbol is drawn pla black, but more recent versns pict the double mars wh the rabow lors filled to symbolize the gays’ aterny or solidary wh other subsectors of the muny.

Back the 20th century New York, gay men would wear a red necktie or bow tie or basilly any red accsory to subtly reprent their inti and help intify members of the same muny. Fortunately, after retirg at age 27, Burke ught a send wd and domated the Gay Softball World Seri where he kept the practice of givg high-fiv to his teammat.