‘A Face Is Not Jt a Face’: Is It Fally Time for the Gay Gaze of Unsung Portraist Gilbert Lewis?

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WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM

Charl Llie’s passnate half-century of homoerotic art llectg offers a mirror for the history of gay history self * art gay world *

From the stage of the Founrs’ Day celebratn of the Llie + Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, the octogenarian art llector addrsed the r crowd there to celebrate the upg expansn of the mm he tablished– a major tone that will double size the world’s first and only mm dited to gay art.

‘A FACE IS NOT JT A FACE’: IS IT FALLY TIME FOR THE GAY GAZE OF UNSUNG PORTRAIST GILBERT LEWIS?

As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture. * art gay world *

The rt, ed, was history: thoands of years of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, ignored and relegated to circumscribed footnot, if that.

Or as the print of the mm’s board of directors, art historian Jonathan David Katz, puts , Llie “enpsulat the cultural tennci” of more than half a century of gay historic activism. Aware of his own sexual sir om an early age, he left for Los Angel as soon as he uld, where he easily fell wh s sub rosa gay muny.

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The dashgly charmg -founr of the Llie-Lohman Mm v si his SoHo apartment—an unbelievable monument to gay creativy and art. " data-reactroot=" * art gay world *

“Charl [Llie] has always been fundamentally foced on the homoerotic, which he unrstands as the most dissint form of art makg, ” says Katz, “bee by fn has been historilly exclud. As he tells , three thgs happened the summer of 1969: Woodstock, the Stonewall Rebelln, and his first annual Exhibn of Homoerotic Art, which he held his Soho stud.

Followg the succs of the first issue earlier this year, The Ltle Black Gallery has jt announced the publitn of Volume 2 of s stunng fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay photography, BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Here The Queer Review previews some of the work clud the magaze. Luiz © Xavier Samre.… * art gay world *

Their hope was to sell explicly gay work (as opposed to work by gay artists tryg to mask their sexualy or create art for a straight dience), orr to prove “wasn’t potls to make. There, they ntued to show homoerotic art (one early show troduced New York to the leather daddy athetic of Tom of Fland), but also branched out to clu work by women (such as Marn Pto’s solo exhib “Man as a Sex Object”), and ls openly erotic work. But the ial foc on gay men, and particular, whe gay men, ntued the unfortunate tradn of excludg women and people of lor om the historil rerd.

Many of their artists and ctomers died, while others refoced their energy on rg for the sick and fightg homophobic fai, apathetic ernment anizatns and rporatns that saw the gay muny as too small a market to make profable to explore new dgs.

Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * art gay world *

In 2011, they received a provisnal charter, makg them the first and only gay art mm the world (the Schwul Mm Berl and the San Francis GLBT History Mm preced them, but both foc on history).

"Queer Art" beme a powerful polil and celebratory term to scribe the art and experience of gay, lbian+ people. * art gay world *

As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Together, the pair found the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art—the first stutn of s kd—which is down the block, on Wooster, unassumg Llie happened to poke his head out to the hallway to terme the e of the ck; before he uld shut the door, a group om the art magaze I worked for had charged their way through.

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‘A Face Is Not Jt a Face’: Is It Fally Time for the Gay Gaze of Unsung Portraist Gilbert Lewis?.

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