Gay Bar vs Art Gallery: Should Queer Exhibns Be Reclaimed by LGBT+ Venu? - ELEPHANT

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For the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Natnal Air and Space Mm proposed a ntroversial exhibn that displayed the Enola Gay.

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GAY BAR VS ART GALLERY: SHOULD QUEER EXHIBNS BE RECLAIMED BY LGBT+ VENU?

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Drawg om the archiv of different queer spac across London, the show terrogated the ongog stat of the queer bar and gay cisg spots LGBT+ muni, as well as the relatnships between the gallery and the queer space. In particular, Queer Spac hoed two works by Prem Sahib, whose work als wh an explicly tactile, gay male sexualy and often mak reference to gay bathhoe or sna culture.

CONTROVERSY OVER THE ENOLA GAY EXHIBN

A work om Hannah Qulan and Rosie Hastgs’s @Gaybar project, which brgs together flyers, gay magaze cuttgs and health rmatn brochur om 170 gay bars across the UK, also featured.

CHERRY GROVE, WHERE GAY NEW YORKERS BEME ‘THEIR REAL SELV’

At the same time, the fight for the rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, spurred by the 1969 Stonewall rts, was lerally transformg the cultural and social landspe of New York Cy.

Gay men sudnly felt ee to sunbathe on the piers naked, cise, and have sex public. While artists llaborated to transform the buildgs of Pier 34 to makhift art studs and exhibn spac, gay men were nvertg Pier 46 to what Delmas Howe lls an "arena for sexual theater.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY EXHIBITION

The Photos of Naked Men Berl Show the Intimacy of Gay Sex .

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