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When Keith Haring turned a men's room into art
On the anniversary of the artist’s birth, we watch back on his site-specific work Once Upon a Time
For most people, doodling on a toilet wall might result in a minor fine, rather a minor work of fine art. Yet for Keith Haring - who was born on this day 4 May in - things were a little different. Though this US artist was used to making unsanctioned works in public places, his site-specific work, Once Upon a Time, was actually commissioned for the men’s room at New York’s Lesbian and Gay Group Services Center, in remembrance of the Stonewall Riots. Haring, rather sombrely translating this important moment in the sexual revolution of the s, indulged in a joyous orgy of poppy, gay, expressionism. Here’s how Richard Meyer takes up the story in our book, Art & Queer Culture.
Once Upon A Time () by Keith Haring. Photo by Alex Galyon, via Flickr. Artistic Commons license
“Beginning in , Keith Haring made illicit chalk drawings on the blank panels of unsold advertising space in Modern York City subway stations. His signature style – silhouetted figures of barking dogs, radiant babies and exuberant characters – soo
"Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
—Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Although the first Pride events in brought queer activists and allies together to parade as a potent symbol of visibility and resistance one year after the Stonewall Uprising, the quest for equality and the acceptance of sexual minorities began about one hundred years earlier in Europe. Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a German activist considered to be the first openly homosexual man, began a difficult and public campaign in the s to reverse the criminalization of homosexual acts included in the Prussian penal code. The focus to his argument: Ulrichs considered his condition of same-sex attraction to be inborn, and therefore deserving of respect and not persecution. Although Ulrichs's campaign failed to overturn the legislation, it forged an important connection between homosexuals and the medical community, which, through the work of sexologists such as Magnus Hirschfeld and Alfred Kinsey, brought much-needed insights into the natural state of homosexuality, a fundamental principle of the argument for identical rights.
To commemorate Pride Month and the more than years of
Lord Spencer Speaks
A Grandee Visits a Grande Dame
Spencer Compton explores the mythical Carolina Apartments
Illustration by Romey Petite
When I was in short breeches, my most elegant mother, Mary Noel, liked to bend an old saying: “Curiosity skills the cat,” she would say, encouraging me to explore the world around me, even if I soiled my silken blouse or bloodied my hectic knees.
Indeed, I developed a hunger for how things work and connect, from the Archimedes screw pump that filled the moat around our Compton Wynyates estate to who was screwing whom in the highest reaches of British government.
While my contemporaries in Parliament considered I, Lord Wilmington, to be a dullard and a fop, many of the realm’s deepest secrets and machinations were at my polished fingertips. (Which is why I became prime minister of Great Britain in ) My lifelong inquisitiveness (some spelled it meddling) has served me good in my current explorations of this city, named for me by my protege, Royal Gov. Gabriel Johnston, once the grandest man in this land.
Which is why I recently found myself, flashlight in hand, exploring the very bowels of the Carolina Apartments, the oldest and mo
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Would you happen to comprehend of any artists with the same style as Julius, but with exclusively men?
Hmmm, where to commence Assuming you’ve already explored the classics like Tom of Finland, Etienne, Beau, Harry Bush and Craig Esposito, there’s always the work of Michael Broderick (aka Hottlead), Lord Iron and Josman. And of course, my bro @grahamgroans (who’s illustrated several of my stories, including the next one) as adequately as the crazy talented Celery Man (@celeryman6 on Twitter). If you delight in the bara style, you can’t go past Mentaiko.
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