It’s time.
Yesterday, GetUp! released this promotional video for marriage equality in Australia. It’s crazy how a simple two-minute video can immediately leave you a little misty-eyed. For more information/sign their petition, click here.
Night’s Gaze, 2023 - oil on wooden panel. — Annie Stegg Gerard (American, b.1982)
Illustration by Japanese homoerotic artist Go Hirano (平野剛). Active from the 1960s through the 1990s, Hirano is regarded as a central figure in the first wave of contemporary gay artists in Japan
Attila (Richard Lukacs): Coo coo ka-choo, Mr. Robinson, 1999
Magnus Enckell: Boys on the Beach, 1910
Elisar von Kupffer (1872-1942) dedicated his life to a spiritual vision of a perfect world of male love. Most of his writing, art, and painting supported his utopian view of a dreamy youthful bonding between men in an idyllic setting. Focusing on the quasi-intellectual side of his philosophy -- Klarismus (clarity) -- gave his somewhat campy, if not kooky version of a perfect world the safe patina of religion. It was a dreamy world of harmony, eros, and androgynous aesthetics. He established himself as a muralist in Locarno, Switzerland, with his partner, Eduard von Mayerm and together they created the Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion, a combination museum, temple, and artistic retreat in their villa at the Lake Maggiore. In the center of the villa is a round room that houses his heroic mural Klarwelt der Seligen. (The Clear World of the Blessed). The painting depicts 84 nude, youthful men in various states of ethereal ecstasy and affection.
Christopher Harrity, Advocate.com, May 12, 2012
Joseph Heintz l’Ancien: Pan et Daphnis, 1593
