"Queer Art" beme a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the art and experience of gay, lbian+ people.
Contents:
- HOW GAY LIBERATN CHANGED THE ART WORLD
- ON THE ENDURG LEGACY OF “GAY LIBERATN,” A SCULPTURE BY GEE SEGAL (BA ’49)
HOW GAY LIBERATN CHANGED THE ART WORLD
* gay liberation art *
Society didn’t sh to embrace queer muni after the 1969 rts that llectively beme known as Stonewall, but at least a harassed mory group fally had a name, a voice, and eventually, a even if ernment-sponsored harassment didn’t sudnly stop—the rts began bee of a police raid on a gay bar the Wt Village lled the Stonewall Inn—Stonewall was, at the very least, an ditor that thgs were begng to change.
ON THE ENDURG LEGACY OF “GAY LIBERATN,” A SCULPTURE BY GEE SEGAL (BA ’49)
Summary of Queer ArtAny art that n be nsired "queer" refers to the re-appropriatn of the term the 1980s, when was snatched back om the homophob and opprsors to bee a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the experience of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex people. Sce the late 19th century, cultural and legal rpons to homosexualy have evolved, but was only the send half of the 20th century that many of the laws crimalizg homosexual acts were overturned.