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This cave painting was found in 1953 in Mount Pellegrino by archaeologist Jole Bovio Marconi after an explosion uncovered part of the site during the Allied Invasion of Sicily in World War II. “American Gothic: Grant Wood.” Gay Influence: Gay & Bisexual Men of Importance, 2014, /2011/12/american-gothic-grant-wood.html.ĭate & Location: 10,000 BCE in Mount Pellegrino in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. “Critics’ Picks: Grant Wood’s Painting ‘Arnold Comes of Age,’ ‘Monroe’ on DVD and Queen Elizabeth II.” The Seattle Times, The Seattle Times Company, 3 June 2012, Terry. Smithsonian Institution, npg.si.edu/object/npg_N-38. With a background depicting nude male figures bathing against an idyllic setting like Wood’s other paintings, this painting suggests sexuality and the coming of age of a man as the title ensues.Īrnold Comes of Age. The central figure being Arnold Pyle, the artists assistant and a possible love interest as Grant surrounded himself with other men who looked similar. Painted in the same year as American Gothic, this piece shows a homoerotic view from Wood. Previously part of Hide/Seek: Differences in American Portraiture in association with the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery Where can I see this artwork?: Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska 2015.ĭate & Location: 1930, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Colouring the Rainbow: Blak Queer and Trans Perspectives: Life Stories and Essays by First Nations People of Australia. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019. “Faces of Queer-Aboriginality in Australia,” in Queer Objects ed. Here the whitefella presence is subordinated to a blackfella declaration of personhood (41).” Resources and Image Creditsĭino Hodge. He is Larrakia with Chinese and Filipino heritage, and Hodge writes that Lee designed a book cover that: “honoured blackfella experiences… his interracial relationship with his partner is represented by a whitefella arm reaching across his chest and the hand resting lightly above his heart. Gary Lee was the first Indigenous person to collaborate with the Northern Territory AIDS Council, and he is a friend and collaborator to Hodge. Hodge writes that “it would be the late 1980s before Aboriginal gay men felt comfortable attending Darwin Gay Society Gatherings (37).”
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It addresses as well the objectification of ‘blackfellas’ by ‘whitefellas’ in the local gay community. ‘Malagas’ means ‘men.’ Dino Hodge’s Did you meet any malagas? is a collection of oral histories intended to tell a ‘gay history’ of Larrakia territory/Darwin that recognizes local, context-specific intersections of sexuality, gender, colonialism, and race. Where can I see this artwork?: Book cover of Did you meet any malagas?: A homosexual history of Australia’s tropical capital by Dino Hodge Significance to Queer Art History New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.ĭate & Location: 1993, Larrakia Territory, Darwin, Australia Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism. His pseudonym, which means ‘Siberian Butterfly,’ was chosen so that the butterfly surviving in a harsh environment could signify “the difficulty of living a gay life in a sexually conservative society (Bao, 158).”Īs Bao explores in the article cited below, Xiyadie’s work also blurs categories of ‘craft’ and ‘art,’ which in itself might be read as a queer defiance of categories. His artwork often explores the lives of queer people who are living in rural China specifically.
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He was born in Heyang County, Shaanxi Province and is now living in Beijing. Xiyadie (pseudonym) is the first known queer artist to carry on the traditional practice of papercutting in China, which has its roots in the Eastern Han Dynasty (Bao, 157 and Nome Gallery). Media: Papercut, Water-Based Dye, and Chinese Pigments using Xuan Paper