In amassg work ma by the mostly overlooked gay artists who lived and died durg the crisis, a global group of llectors is refg what the Wtern non looks like.
Contents:
GAY 'SEX CLUB' SI MAAT EXPLOR NOTNS OF SEXUALY AND PUNISHMENT
They look like relatively simple flat patgs, but the procs mak them very plited to driv you to document LGBTQ spac, as you did your project The UK Gay Bar Directory? We started filmg gay bars wh a GoPro mera 2014, wh no particular oute md. Before we knew Candy Bar, the Gee and Dragon, and Joers Arms—all by, succsful, and culturally important gay bars London—had shut their doors followed by a spate of other closur natnally.
K., forcg ourselv to male-domant or male-only spac, filmg gay bars, and creatg an archive that would functn both as an art work, a public rource, and a ll to arms. Often, we would arrive a cy and a much-loved gay bar had closed s doors only days before.
We explore how the ntemporary gay rights movement has aligned self wh the state, the police, the ary, and wh property velopers at the expense of s own muny. Barbara Kat'Only Tony': Portras by Gilbert LewisPennsylvania Amy of Fe Arts, PhilalphiaPhilalphia artist Gilbert Lewis is a longstandg fixture of the cy’s art muny, but his sensive portraure work has th far been unrexposed at lol mms, spe s importance the natnal lexin of gay male art. After g out as gay, he left the UK and studied fe art and photography at New York’s Pratt Instute.