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Contents:
- IN SEARCH OF A GAY ATHETIC
- IS THERE A ‘GAY ATHETIC’ TO POP MIC?
- WHICH GAY/LBIAN ATHETIC IS MOST LIKE YOU?
- HOMOSEXUALY HOMOGENIZED: WHAT'S LOST WHEN GAY ATHETIC GO MASTREAM?
- "YOU OUT-GAYED THE GAYS": GAY ATHETIC POWER AND LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER WOMEN LGBTQ SPAC
- GAY ATHETIC WALLPAPERS
IN SEARCH OF A GAY ATHETIC
At a new Fashn Instute of Technology show, an attempt to wre gay men and lbians ‘back to history.’ * gay aesthetic *
W1tchf4g Gay Wchery, Hellenism, And Green Magic. “And she answered, ‘Probably not as much as gay men.
Steele and her lleague, Fred Dennis — mak a gent se for a more balanced view of fashn history, one that, given the wily held perceptn that gay men domate fashn, has curly tend to skew heterosexual and male. Steele add, “Was how are you to gog to monstrate that there is a gay athetic?
” That was the task when they began anizg the show two years ago, wh ltle to go on but a termatn to rtore to a proper place history the untls lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people who, whout qutn, ntributed greatly to fashn. Somehow, gay men and lbians were left out of most official acunts of fashn history, Ms. ”Coverg three centuri through 100 garments, “Queer History of Fashn” intifi and chronicl the hidn--pla-sight prence of “queers” (the curators’ preferred term) — om the flamboyant 18th-century personag known as molli, to 20th-century avatars of butch lbian elegance, gay clon, drag queens and marquee signers whose open-secret sexualy was long kept ncealed.
IS THERE A ‘GAY ATHETIC’ TO POP MIC?
From Elton John to Mika, the “glam piano” genre may be as tegral to the Gay Amerin experience as hip-hop and the blu are to the Ain Amerin one * gay aesthetic *
In the age of gay marriage, n seem almost implsible that signers like Christian Dr, Bill Blass, Halston and untls others spent their profsnal liv the closet, or that homophobia was rampant a field where stereotyp have long held that many creative typ were gay. ’ ” at tim which their sexualy was not jt unwele but often illegal, gay men, bisexuals and lbians improvised a social theater most notably exprsed, Ms.
“But then, when you looked more eply to the history, you found the proto-gay cultur ci like London, Paris, Amsterdam. ” (In fact, you wouldn’t need to, sce the gay historian Rictor Norton thoroughly explored this particular gay subculture a 1992 book, “Mother Clap’s Molly Hoe.
WHICH GAY/LBIAN ATHETIC IS MOST LIKE YOU?
* gay aesthetic *
And that grim fact n be found sight to the necsy for visg systems of vert signs and symbols, visual s gay people improvised rponse to opprsn. Whether there evolved out of this a “gay athetic” is arguable, though n certaly be supposed that gay and lbian people may historilly have found a haven fashn bee, as Ms.
Steele suggted, offered “a chance to create another world reactn to a homophobic society. Steele add, notg that Dr, the great French uturier, never me out for fear of shockg his mother; that the Atrian-born novator Rudi Gernreich, a gay activist private life, never dared e out publicly for fear of portatn; that the visnary Brish fashn edor Madge Garland was shiered by Brish Vogue when her sexualy was revealed. Even the award-wng ntemporary signer Narciso Rodriguez once briefly nsired abandong a reer fashn, as he explas an say the talog for the exhibn, bee his parents were alarmed that he would “go gay” if he did.
HOMOSEXUALY HOMOGENIZED: WHAT'S LOST WHEN GAY ATHETIC GO MASTREAM?
In lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) spac, gay male practic, sexuali, and prri often domate. I argue that mixed-genr LGBTQ ftival spac the South, gay athetics are normative, which often mimiz the ntributns of lbian, bisexual, and queer (LB … * gay aesthetic *
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“Even as a gay man, I don’t know my own history, ” he Sanrs, the archect and queer theorist who signed the exhibn, said: “As outsirs, as queers, gays and lbians have always had to have feelers out, to be more aware of d signifiers. To suggt the implic reciprol relatnship between gay culture and high fashn, Mr. Beneath ns a purple platform for displayg styl associated directly wh gay subcultur: fashn’s straight ego and s lavenr id.
“Bill was one of the first openly gay men men’s wear, the Donna Karan of men, ” Mr. It was important to track gay prence and mark s progrs out of the closet. “You n’t unrstand fashn until you put those gay people back .
"YOU OUT-GAYED THE GAYS": GAY ATHETIC POWER AND LBIAN, BISEXUAL, AND QUEER WOMEN LGBTQ SPAC
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”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn E, Page 10 of the New York edn wh the headle: In Search of a Gay Athetic.
Now that the Supreme Court has acknowledged that homosexuals have the same right to marriage as any other Amerins, perhaps we n beg to thk about Gay Amerins as we thk about Irish Amerins, Ain Amerins and Hispanic Amerins: as a muny wh s own tradns and cultural flavors while beg an sential part of the Amerin whole. If that's te, we n ask the qutn: n we intify a “gay” athetic mic the same way we n pot to a Celtic, black or Lato athetic? You don’t have to look very hard to fd not jt one but multiple gay currents mic.
But one aspect of gay-pop worthy of tailed examatn is the sub-genre I ll “Glam Piano. But he giv that craftsmanship a gay athetic by tweakg everythg to make more theatril. ” Sal like that imply that many non-gays have been buyg his songs, but that's no different really than Otis Reddg’s and Kanye Wt’s abily to articulate specifilly Ain-Amerin experienc and at the same time nnect to a non-black dience.
GAY ATHETIC WALLPAPERS
From his earlit rerds, his fect melodi have been employed to tell stori about people wh embarrassg secrets, such as “Billy Brown, ” a gay man wh “an ordary life: two kids, a dog, and a preutnary wife, ” or the gay man who says, “I try to be like Grace Kelly, but all her looks were too sad. Wh each album, he has bee more explic about addrsg issu the gay muny. “Last Party” is a tribute to Mercury, the Queen lead sger and gay in.
The mic is melancholy, but the lyrics are fiant, argug that the early ath of so many hard-livg gay men is not to be pied but admired.
“Good Guys” is a siar tribute to all the gay role mols that meant so much to the songwrer “when I was 14 years old and my hero [were] drsed up gold. Like Ain-Amerin mic, gay mic is neher required of nor limed to gay micians. Jt as black micians such as rock 'n' roller Jimi Hendrix and untry crooner Dari Rucker uld build succsful reers outsi black styl, so has Bob Mould, a gay man who created brilliant post-punk mic as part of Hker Du and Sugar and as a solo artist.