‘I had no visn at all,’ said Charl W. Llie, who -found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art 50 years ago. ‘It had to do wh some vague ncept of gay liberatn.’
Contents:
- 5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS OM ART
- GAY RIGHTS
- HOW A SELF-TGHT ART CURATOR BEME A GAY RIGHTS CHAMPN
5 ARTISTS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS OM ART
The book Art After Stonewall reveals the impact of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr civil rights movement on the art world. * gay rights art *
June 20, 2021Homosexualy and genr fluidy have appeared as subjects art for lennia, but for morn Wtern cultur, wasn’t until the late 20th century that artists uld treat such them overtly, whout fear of censorship, ostracism or even arrt.
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay rights art *
The well-documented tippg pot was June 1969, when a route police raid on the Stonewall Inn — a bar Greenwich Village known for drawg a gay, lbian and transgenr crowd — unwtgly gave rise to an ongog groundswell of LGBTQ activism.
HOW A SELF-TGHT ART CURATOR BEME A GAY RIGHTS CHAMPN
At the time, homosexualy was illegal 49 stat, gays and lbians were barred om workg for the feral ernment, and police treated cross-drsg as a punishable crime. After Stonewall, om the 1970s on, art beme a safe space where overtly gay, lbian, trans, queer and nonnformg ias, subjects and imag uld be eely explored.
The long history of homophobia the Wtern world didn’t keep homosexualy out of art, necsarily, but did drive artists to nceal their sexual preferenc behd visual s.