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	World Sculpture News - Van der Griff-Mar -- Dixie Friend Gay
		As Gay portrays them, these figures are literally blank-faced; they all have been given postures of grave neutrality, this gives them the potential to be frightening, comforting, or quietly present.
		Gay presents this work with no expectation of any particular association or response; she presents the phenomena but does nothing to guide her viewer further.
		Gay's space is entered indirectly, through a right-angled corridor that takes you from the late-day summer light to an opening that overlooks the installation from its far right-hand corner.
	www.dixiefriendgay.com /wsn.asp (843 words)

	Gay icon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gay icon is a larger-than-life celebrity or public figure with wide-spread fans amongst the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community, particularly those figures preceived to be 'strong' or brave individuals who have wrestled with issues of sexuality and/or psychological demons and have suffered publicly and survived.
		Gay 'icons' include dramatic movie stars, as well as those who died young and beautiful or under tragic circumstances, both male and female musical stars (particularly those with powerful, emotive voices and/or troubled personal lives) and androgynous pop artists and rock groups.
		Another criticism of gay icons is that the concept is based on the notion that a person's sexual orientation dictates, or at least influences, a person's cultural and aesthetic preferences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_icon (597 words)

	Environmental ARt
		Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists as well as work are not being represented enough to the general public, despite its undeniable existence.
		She is very submissive and does not mind the abuse and objectification by the man. On the other hand, in gay pornography, the men are not portrayed as sexual objects the way that women are.
		Gay male pornography is only acceptable for gay males, while lesbian pornography is considered a realm of everyone.
	www.albany.edu /~bb9136/christina/index.html (1004 words)

	Larry Kramer Initiative
		Since Johns and Rauschenberg lived as gay men and lovers ion the midst of what was probably the singular most homophobic decade in American history, the closet was a central fact of life.
		For gay and lesbian people, coupledom operates differently, as indeed it must within a policed social context that not only pathologizes queer people, but strenuously enforces their social isolation as its chief mechanism of repression and control.
		Recent scholarship in lesbian and gay studies, for example, has revealed the importance of World Was II in the development of lesbian and gay community in the United States precisely because it forced together individuals from diverse places and backgrounds, including lesbian and gay people, each thinking they were the only ones like themselves around.
	www.yale.edu /lesbiangay/Pages/Academic/JK_Lvrs.html (5887 words)

	Writings
		Gay erotic media perpetuate not only an ideal stereotype of the enormously hung gay man but one who is - like Priapus -- permanently ready for sex too.
		The final parallel of gay men to the role of Priapus and his followers is their function as freaks in society.
		Thus, de-literalizing Priapus, gay men, in their erotic imaginations, bear nearly all the outward signs of his cult: a preoccupation with the phallus, the will to continual lust, a taste for the histrionic (the "camp") and the uncoveted role of freak in society.
	www.soulworks.net /writings/essays/site_062.html (2930 words)

	Comments on 12269 \| Ask MetaFilter
		There's often rejection of (stereo)typical gay iconography by gay youth, and little inter-generational communication that doesn't seem to have a stigmata of pederasty attached to it.
		I have seen churches, schools and community groups for gay people where there were people in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s all in one room; I volunteered at a GLBT community center when I was 18 and worked with men in their 50s cataloging gay-related ephermera like underground magazines.
		I also know gay men who say they have no straight acquiantances at all, and tell me that not only is there a gay culture but that they live in it to the exclusion of all other cultures.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/12269 (2444 words)

	Larry Kramer Initiative
		There is, at first glance, nothing particularly gay about this image, save perhaps for a loose identification of an outsider’s perspective with a gay one, and of the shared struggle to get along in a world strange and estranging.
		Two gay men working and living together, they were able to develop between themselves some semblance of the kind of community that the Abstract Expressionists took for granted.
		The closeted gay man is surely in part defined by anticipation of the others’ subjective response, and thus allows that response to define his reality.
	www.yale.edu /lesbiangay/Pages/Academic/JK_Oop.html (2921 words)

	not just a city in egypt.
		The gay or lesbian individual or household has been understood as a ‘dream consumer' because of certain characteristics that are understood as either necessarily attendant to an individual's sexuality or simply more likely in a demographic sense.
		If a gay man is to signify his identity in a way that will be readily identifiable to other gay men, he must do so using certain accepted cultural cues.
		The term ‘gay press' is used to refer to newspapers and magazines intended for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered audiences.
	www.geocities.com /alexandriathegirl/campad.html (7691 words)

	True Coming Out Stories Onstage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I realize there is a great deal of gay iconography that could be interesting to work with, but I feel it would take away from the production rather than add to its meaning.
		I want each person to be an individual who is real to the audience as opposed to an icon or a symbol of a group of people.
		The chorus will literally bring some of the color of the gay community and complement the realistic nature of the main characters without being distracting.
	www.appstate.edu /~martypjw/dramaturgypages/closets/costume.htm (317 words)

	Comment is free: Margaret Thatcher: gay icon
		As gay men have surpassed all others to become the benchmark by which the free-market economy is tested, due to their disposable incomes and comparatively highrolling lifestyles - all dizzyingly Thatcherite in itself - anyone and everyone has learnt the power of laying claims to gay iconic status.
		The idea of gay iconography itself is currently replaceable with the idea of popularity and the ability to carry a strong, identifiable, signature look.
		Many gay men (Ivan Massow has written on this) appreciate Thatcher not for the camp but for the social revolution that came on the back of the economics (developments that couldn't be stemmed with the likes of Section 28).
	commentisfree.guardian.co.uk /paul_flynn/2006/05/by_paul_flynn.html (1732 words)

	MY OWN PRIVATE NEW QUEER CINEMA
		The legal strife and social hostility of gay life of the 1970s and early 1980s is echoed by the pair’s frequent run-ins with the cops, gay bashers, and intolerant heterosexuals who just think the guys are weird.
		The fact that they are pretty much the only gay male characters in the film codes their same-sex love affair as a defiant, pioneering act – an act of sexual revolution.
		Tellingly, though, a missing element in the otherwise historically comprehensive bricolage of Mike, Luke and Jon’s identities is the gay face of the AIDS Crisis.
	www.outrate.net /featuresidaho3.html (1404 words)

	J.D. Welch - Camp Iconography and Gender Performance by Bob Rauschenberg
		One reason that lesbians and gay men often make great artists may be that being gay and creating art both require similar strengths: the ability to create an original world of one's own, and a willingness to jettison the conventional wisdom in favor of one's own convictions.
		This 'shared subjectivity' and the greater 'gay context' in which he was working may give a reasonable explanation for why this was the only period of his work that can be called gay.
		The prevailing mode in which gay culture is presented in mass media, the "physique" movement-- that is the proliferation of gay erotic material under the guise of bodybuilding guides.
	www.jdwelch.net /writing/camp.html (2794 words)

	gay news blog: Chuck, Hillary Regret …: Senators Schumer and Clinton still don't support same-sex marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The signs are there: the mayor of New Paltz marrying same-sex couples, a gay Assembly member suing for the right to marry, weddings on the steps of City Hall as a nonplused Mayor Bloomberg wanders past.
		Gay supporters have been leaning for weeks on New York’s two Senators at least to put out a statement of their positions on a variety of gay-rights issues.
		And after taking calls from The Observer about their positions on gay rights, the Senators rushed out a joint letter stating their support for civil unions and anti-discrimination laws, and their opposition to a state ban on gay marriage and the Federal Marriage Amendment.
	gay_blog.blogspot.com /2004/04/chuck-hillary-regret-senators-schumer.html (1843 words)

	Dark Victory - New York Times
		Although the nation remains divided over the issue of gay rights, and the prospect of Hawaii's legalization of same-sex marriage has ignited fierce opposition, in cosmopolitan centers and in the national press gay men and lesbians have achieved an unparalleled degree of visibility and acceptance.
		Such criticisms of the cost of gay people's efforts to secure corporate recognition are often astute, but Harris writes as if the growing acceptance of homosexuals were the result of a giant marketing plot rather than the achievement of more than a generation of struggle.
		Gay men, Harris believes, are almost the last group in America to avoid drowning in the melting pot.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DE1231F934A3575AC0A961958260 (669 words)

	Gay Icon - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Gay Icons are images or representations depicting sacred or divine figures, traditionally worshiped in the religious practice of Gay.
		Collins, a pious gay (much like Gaurav Raje), aimed to capture the essence of gay in the arts, mainly in the areas of music and painting.
		The most noteworthy of example of this phenomenon occured in 1974 when a starving gay Antarctican teen was cured of Acute Ninja Syndrome after touching a marble statue of you.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gay_Icon (286 words)

	White gay male identity and Warhol by Margo Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The film depicts gay iconography, but obeys taboos about sexual representation by keeping the sex — if that is in fact what is causing the man’s movements — offscreen.
		“gay-bashing and homophobia notwithstanding, what gay men had in common with heterosexual bachelors and stags was the freedom to celebrate their socialization as males” (110).
		“the dynamics of gay male and straight male identification are not as mutually exclusive as are their objects of desire” (110).
	www.ejumpcut.org /currentissue/Warhol/index.html (2107 words)

	Columbia Journal of American Studies - L/G/B/T/Q and its Discontents
		The openly gay African-American author James Baldwin was seeking a place where he could be judged as an individual, not the sum of his various social identities.
		In a society that insists on dualisms, fl vs. white, gay vs. straight, male vs. female, it is inevitable that the in-group doesn’t feel it needs defining, while it defines the out-group by negation, by what it is not.
		Gay and lesbian audiences may have gone to the movies to find romance and adventure, like everyone else, but in a sense they came back with much more.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cjas/lgbtq.html (2545 words)

	...Or Does It Explode?: Civil Rights Abuses: Gay Rights
		The issue, then, is not whether concepts such as ‘gay’ and ‘sexual orientation’ are foreign imports, but whether they serve a useful purpose.
		Algerian law totally forbids same-sex marriages and "civil unions," however a gay couple was able to get a hotel owner in Waharan to agree to host a "birthday party" but instead, they held a marriage ceremony for two men.
		Despite the heavy penalties for homosexuality, most Saudi cities are said to have underground gay networks which organise parties in private villas, and sometimes in hotels.
	www.ordoesitexplode.com /me/civil_rights_abuses_gay_rights/index.html (3569 words)

	Gay icon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A gay icon is a popular culture entertainer, usually a woman, who has a significant following among the gay community, particularly among Gay men.
		The term dykon (dyke icon) is sometimes used in reference to Gay icons that appeal primarily to lesbians.
		Gay Icons are sometimes also popular with heterosexual fans.
	gay-icon.setcom.sk (118 words)

	The Liminal Iconography of Jodie Foster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Certain groups in the female backlash felt that Foster was being identified as gay because she is a strong woman; they felt it was wrong for gay activists to use her as a "sacrificial lamb" (Staiger 142).
		The cultural codes embodied by Foster as (simultaneously or separately) a feminist, a femme lesbian, a butch lesbian, and a "good [heterosexual] girl," that is, someone who needs protection from the press and gay activists, are because of her liminality.
		Acknowledging this privilege, I conclude however, with the suggestion that Foster's ambiguous and tenacious "unidentity" may be her public articulation of the problems associated with sexual boundaries and categories.
	www.tcp.com /~mary/j.pop.film.html (3530 words)

	Moscow Gay Activists Assaulted by Homophobes - FEATURE - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Gay German Green MP, Volker Beck, who was there to support local activists, was hit in the face with what looked like a brick, with the cameras rolling, leaving passers-by in shock.
		Gay and lesbian rights activists had defied the city’s ban against the Pride March, with supporters from across Europe joining them as they attempted to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier — a Russian symbol of anti-fascism.
		By the time of the start of the gay pride rally last Saturday, over 100 youths were standing in the square opposite the mayor’s office, chanting the slogan: “Glory to Russia!” Several trampled a rainbow-colored ribbon — the symbol of gay rights — into the ground.
	www.mosnews.com /feature/2006/05/28/gays.shtml (1612 words)

	OregonLive.com: QPDX - The Queer Northwest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Some have worried that, in the future, manipulation of a "gay gene" or genes might be used as a method of preventing homosexuality in utero, or perhaps even after.
		Therefore, the gay population is almost exclusively Catholic and Catholic imagery becomes equated with gay iconography.
		After years of asking the sex symbol and gay icon Madonna to be on Ellen Degeneres' daytime show the italian fireball finally agrees to appear in a Grammy special.
	www.oregonlive.com /qpdx/weblog/index.ssf?/mtlogs/olive_qpdx/archives/2006_02.html (2203 words)

	Wordlab: Gay Vague Advertising
		"Despite huge progress in gay equality over the last few years advertisers have been slow to tackle the queer market head on," according to a recent article about "Gay Advertising" on the Rainbow Network that includes a link to the top ten gayest adverts of all time.
		"Gay Vague" is a term coined by Michael Wilke at Advertising Age in 1997 for ads that covertly speak to gays or seem to imply gayness with a wink -- an intention advertisers often deny, or sometimes don't even intend.
		Some ads convey different meanings in mainstream media versus gay media because of who is intended to look at it.
	www.wordlab.com /2006/04/gay-vague-advertising.cfm (852 words)

	After 2 years, same-sex marriage icons split up - The Boston Globe
		Supporters of gay marriage had cast them as the face of their cause: happily together for two decades, financially stable, loving parents, and in 2004, able to legally wed.
		On May 17, 2004, when gay marriage became officially legal, they marched into Boston City Hall, mobbed by news media and guarded by police, and became one of the first couples in the state to apply for a marriage license.
		Images of the couple leaving the wedding, showered in confetti, became part of the iconography of gay marriage, reproduced in newspapers and on television shows across the globe.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/21/after_2_years_same_sex_marriage_icons_split_up?mode=PF (940 words)

	Rainbow Flag created 1978 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As a symbol for gay consciousness, it reminds us that we must be "saviors of the world" -- and in the issue of overpopulation (a different kind of flood--a flood of human flesh) we surely on the side of reason and good sense.
		At any rate, an increase in the number of gay people living full, contributing lives is a better solution to overpopulation than a devastating catastrophe.
		What we need to communicate to the world is not that people should be homosexual and cultivate the styles of gay culture (though that’s not a bad suggestion), but that people should be responsive to their deepest psychological needs, to what brings them bliss.
	www.tobyjohnson.com /rainbowflag.html (996 words)

	Multivalent voices: gay and lesbian artists who are also Jewish search for ways to address questions of ethnicity and ...
		Passing' meant that Jewish identity had to be effaced and that related religious or cultural iconography had to be tastefully submerged if not totally excluded.(5) For decades, one of the great taboos for Jewish artists was to represent ethnicity in their work.
		In the shadow of this debate, a number of highly vocal lesbian and gay Jewish artists are beginning to appear on the art scene, all of whom insist on combining sexual and ethnic identity and making it the focus of their art.
		While I want to concentrate on lesbian and gay Jewish artists, it should be emphasized that they share a number of art tactics with a larger group of heterosexual Jewish artists who have, during the last decade, explored ethnic themes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n12_v83/ai_17860694 (798 words)

	Reviews
		The subtitle, The Story of Gay Visibility in America, is on the other hand very appropriate: Walters describes “the explosion of gay visibility”, as opposed to detailing, say, the invisibility of lesbians and gays before 1969 and Stonewall.
		If the Reagan years were harsh for gays, Dynasty’s camp send-ups of ostentatious wealth and the outrageousness of bitch-extraordinaire Alexis made the series a staple of gay iconography, even as the actually gay character was hardly a role model of self-acceptance and pride.
		She addresses gay and lesbian marriages, gay and lesbian parenting, the evolution of federal and local legislation, and so forth.
	www.cercles.com /review/r2/walters.html (1025 words)

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