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Contents:

• THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
• GAY REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
• THE BT GAY BEACH THE USA

THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE

More importantly, Hockney has given an imagery through which we n beg to unrstand the whe gay male experience 1970s Los Angel.

Hockney was an artist who fied generally-accepted social stctur and led his life as an openly gay man a world that systematilly opprsed and silenced those who did not nform. 5Quickly, Hockney also sought to rporate allns to his own homosexualy his patgs, spired by the texts of Christopher Isherwood and Alan Rechy, which revelled the explos of their homosexual characters. But Hockney also started his Love Patgs, which celebrated homosexual love by rporatg phallic elements tanm wh fantastil lors and imagery.

GAY REHOBOTH BEACH, DELAWARE | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!

This was his attempt to fe the dividual, the real, and the imagary to provi a homosexual space of pleasure and actualized sire.

Bohemian liftyl were the new fad, artists were weled wh arms wi open, and the gay scene was bubblg wh possibili.

1It is out of this need to portray gay life that Hockney started formulatg his hedonistic, sun-bathed image of California. The Summer Diary Project is a curated llectn of male photography, queer art, and gay pop culture that's told a daily narrative by s founr and creative director Billy Mec.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

This November, Summer Diary has jt opened Summer Outpost - s onle shop and art gallery, sellg origal patgs, exclive prts, digal magaz, and their new lendar for more at, Instagram,, December 5th, Summer Diary heads om s Jersey Shore home to South Beach to exhib at "the gayt fair at Miami Art Week" -- the Art Gaysel show at Hotel Gaytherg. "Alex Guerra, Art Gaysel's founr & curator, reached out to me on Instagram to e down this year and show" says Billy.

OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH

"I uldn't be more lighted and honored to be a part of this diverse talented group of gay artists Alex has put together. "If you're to llectg queer art and havg a good time" says Billy, "this mt be the place for you to be Miami Beach evengs durg Art Basel" Diary will be showg select works om "The Sun Bathers", their current onle show of origal patgs by Richard Stabbert, "Men In Nature", an exclive & very limed edn of prts by SDP ntributg photographer Ron Amato (clud here this gallery), and "Somewhere Over The Rabow", one-of-a-kd hand pated vtage postrds by Nolan Gaysel ns om December 5 - 9, 2018. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWorkg largely outsi the gallery system, a group of illtrators is revivg the disciple and refg how queer bodi are reprented MacConnell, “Ernie” 2014, waterlor and pen on paperLAST FALL, IN a ty apartment downtown New York, a 30-year-old gay physique mol named Matthew Williams stood naked agast a whe backdrop ont of the gay artist John MacConnell.

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Over the next 2, 000 years, pturg the naked male form beme an sential artistic skill, one that reached s apotheosis Wtern culture durg the Italian Renaissance, when homosexual sire was subtly exprsed Donatello’s bronze “David” (cir 1440) and Caravagg’s patg “The Micians” (1597), where the tradnal female me is replaced wh a band of boys, partially robed togas, referencg a Greek and Roman perd which homoeroti was a part of society.

Classics profsor Andrew Lear, 59, who now ns Osr Wil Tours, a pany that offers excursns foced on implicly gay art and history major while some old masters fetishized the male body barely d ways, the ia of an openly queer artist exprsg his sir om a queer perspective was only born the last century.

Ined, cricism of works like Cadm’s durg an era which homosexualy was still forbidn phed many of the artists to the unrground, om where they’re still beg unearthed today. (It’s perhaps not cintal that Alan Hollghurst’s latt novel, “The Sparsholt Affair, ” a gay retellg of Bra the 20th century, clus a 1940s-era artist tryg to pursue a classmate at Oxford by drawg his figure. ) Frato, “Tangere” 2016, lored pencil on paper, urty of the artist and Antoe Levi, Paris; Jordan Mejias, “Dare Me, ” 2017, monochromatic waterlor on paper, om the book “Of Art and Men” (Photograph: Hans-Ge Pospischil) © Jordan MejiasIN THE YEARS after Cadm, other gay perspectiv on the male body found their way to visual culture, though they’ve typilly been nsired taboo or hypersexual.

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And spe the “queer enlightenment” of the 1970s and ’80s, when Robert Mapplethorpe, the photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayo and others brought man-on-man sex to the mm, there rema few celebratory imag of openly gay men Wtern visual art.

Williams’s afternoon ssn wh MacConnell, fact, is part of a recent revival of male figure drawg among ntemporary gay artists — cludg Kou Shou, Mart Bedolla and Stephen McDermott — who all specialize stripped-down reprentatns of largely young whe men. MacConnell and Williams met 2016 at the artist Mark Beard’s drawg salon, which now attracts a rotatg st of about 30 gay artists. Outled his signature blue pen, ’s a tribute to the sorts of mundane gay moments that are rarely celebrated art or popular culture.

Gay figure artists are followg the homoerotic tradn tablished by Mizer, Fland and the artist Tom Bianchi, whose photographic nus have seen a renaissance after he published “Fire Island P, Polaroids 1975-1983” 2013.

” In “On Send Thought” (2016), the ster’s mcular curv suggt early Roman statuary while ializg gayns the tradn of Cadm’s fabulist etchg “Y. In this, Frato and the other ntemporary gay figure artists share a philosophy, spe their different athetics: They’re all mted to reflectg the mostly unseen terr liv of the men they admire, and to celebratg a diverse set of subjects who, taken together, stand opposn to a nonil history of art that has long ignored an openly gay view of the male body. From ravishg s of nature to creative fields of exprsivens, Gay Rehoboth Beach has much to offer cludg noteworthy gay bars, gay beach and popular gay areas that LGBT folks gather at daily.

Famed as the Natn’s Summer Capal, wh Washgton DC lawmakers and their staff members g here for weekend and summer getaways, Rehoboth Beach is an extremely gay-iendly town – spe beg found the 1870s as a Methodist Meetg Camp…. Rumour has that the DuPont property along the Atlantic ocean was where Rehoboth’s queer nightlife seed back the 1940s (thanks to an artist group of women paters famo both for their nvas and their close mararie…), though thgs really took off the 70s – though gays and lbians beg much more visible town the early 1990s lead to some ph-back om lols at the time.

Today, Gay Rehoboth Beach is practilly burstg wh queerns as has over 200 gay-owned bs jam-packed to this pact town which mak a popular and mt-see spot on the east ast for queer folks alike. There are two gay beach, Poodble Beach wh promently gay men, but any queer dividual n be found here, and one lbian beach (North Shore) where all queer ladi eely soak up the sun.

It is more than safe to say that Rehoboth is a gay landmark of Delaware as pared to the rt of the ci the typilly nservative state.