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Contents:
- THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG
- THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
- GAY WATER — CYNIL, PAT-BY-NUMBERS VIRTUE-SURFG START-UP? OR BEVERAGE INDTRY UNIRN WH GIFT OF GAY RIGHTS?
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
THE GAYT IMAG OM MICHELANGELO'S MOST FAMO PATG
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An Italian art historian claims some of the imag picted Michelangelo's "Last Judgment"—the on the wall of the Siste Chapel—were spired by acts the artist wnsed homosexual bathho. ) Lazzari go on to say that Michelangelo drew spiratn om his fellow gays and the mcular prostut who regularly worked the lossal work, which took the Renaissance master four years to pat and grac the Siste Chapel Vatin Cy, is a pictn of judgment day, wh the virtuo beg lled to heaven and sners beg dragged to hell. The first terpretatn of the Ganyme tale is born om the homosexual relatns that were acknowledged some ancient Greek stat.
The relatnships were not what we would today ll homosexual.
Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth.
THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
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Some patrons may have requted a versn of the Ganyme myth as an exprsn of their homosexual sir. In poetry, plays, and even mon parlance, Ganyme me to stand for both paedophilic and homosexual tast.
Homosexualy the morn sense was only named and acknowledged the late neteenth century. While many homosexual men had to rema gey about their love, there were some outspoken artists who were relatively open about their sir.
Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men. Dpe the ubiquy of Ganyme wtern art, his populary fell away the late neteenth century favour of another symbol for homosexual love. It may be that openly displayg a work of Ganyme, wh all of s illic homosexual unrton, would too openly 'out' a llector as a Ganyme himself.
GAY WATER — CYNIL, PAT-BY-NUMBERS VIRTUE-SURFG START-UP? OR BEVERAGE INDTRY UNIRN WH GIFT OF GAY RIGHTS?
T3 Founr, thor of Cowgirl Power and female artist Gay Gaddis shar her spiratn behd her patgs of Texas landsp and ski. * gay painting *
For homosexual Grand Tourists, Anto proved irristible.
In one of the most famo portras of Wckelmann, the great art historian and homosexual n be seen proudly examg an engravg of a statue of Anto. By the late neteenth century, Anto had e to replace Ganyme as the in of choice for gay art llectors. Yet the stori of the two gay ins ntued to speak to gay men.
It is no wonr the stori of Anto and Ganyme spoke strongly to gay men tim when their love was illegal. In the 'Gay Corner' of the Congrsnal Cemetery Washgton, you will fd the name of Anto scribed on an obelisk unr the shady branch of a cherry tree. Homosexualy has, for most of history, been a taboo subject.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
It is only relatively recent tim that the subject of homoeroticism has been able to be addrsed wh any serns at all. Wh the growg acceptance of sexual diversy has e a rethkg of the role played by homosexualy art history. Christiany disapproved of all erotic art, but particularly anythg that hted at homosexual attractn.
It did not stop the great paters of the Renaissance, many of whom are today acknowledged as gay, om portrayg the sexual allure of famoly, the var versns of St Sebastian’s martyrdom, showg a spicly mcular torso punctured by arrows, achieved inic stat among homosexual admirers who rpond not only to his physil bety, but also to his plight as a tortured, yet steadfast, martyr. Homosexualy as a label, or a mo of inty, did not appear Europe until the 19th century.
ESTIMATE: £18, 000–25, took until the epochal social chang of the 1960s (and specifilly the crimalisatn act of 1967 the UK) for homosexualy to prise self out of the closet, and art acted as both talyst and rerr of the moment. Mapplethorpe picted the sado-masochistic trop of gay sex, not primarily as attempts to outrage the public, but as ntral, if betifully shot, rerds of homosexual activy. By the time of his ath om an AIDS-related illns 1989, the alarmg spread of the disease had bee a clarn-ll for gay artists, rultg the explicly polil art of Keh Harg and the Gran Fury llective.
WHY GAY-IENDLY TAIWAN IS A CREATIVE HAVEN FOR LGBTQ ART
ESTIMATE: £3, 000–5, the ol gaze of Andy Warhol, meanwhile, the cliched hyper-masculy of gay p-ups was gently ironised: his starkly-l, tightly-cropped Body Builr of 1982 is absurdly out of proportn, an afont to classil ials of manly 21st century has seen a growg acceptance of homosexualy, but only up to a pot. Artists ntue to challenge those who would ny their right to exprs and mentate on their own sexual orientatn, most recently 2010’s "Hi/Seek: Difference and Dire Amerin Portraure” exhibn at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Portra Gallery Washgton DC, which provoked lls for a ngrsnal review of the Smhsonian’s the subject of homoeroticism ntu to make s prence felt the cultural mastream: wns the Brish Mm’s A Ltle Gay History gui, explicly drawg attentn to objects wh homosexual them the llectn. Pated the same year as Amerin Gothic, this piece shows a homoerotic view om Wood.
” Gay Influence: Gay & Bisexual Men of Importance, 2014,. The wrgs of Marni scribe her own terpretatn of the picted scene to be homoerotic nature due to the male figur erect penis parallel to each other.
A homoerotic rual nducted by the two shamans wh the l reprentg energy and/or male ejaculatn at or after puberty.