𝙵𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝙿𝙸𝙴𝙲𝙴𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝙼𝙴𝙳𝙸𝙰 𝙸 𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙾𝙲𝙸𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝚆𝙸𝚃𝙷 𝙼𝚈 𝙼𝚄𝚂𝙴
jasper johns & robert rauschenberg, art history.
the foundational artists for perry as mccarthy era gay lovers who coded their work and through a well-formed visual vocabulary.
“their art offers a number of interesting clues. that there is some kind of pictorial dialog at work in their artmaking is undeniable. not only do they share a number of motifs–from light bulbs to the use of newsprint–some images directly mine gay cultural references and a few actually seem to invoke aspects of their relationship.” – the art of code, jonathan katz.
work!: a queer history of modeling, elspeth h. brown.
i promise it’s not solely academic media, but i recommend this book which highlights how fashion photography was largely an interwar lgbtq+ production seized by cishet men by the 60′s who weaponized it, really, to reinforce gendered power structures. perry’s my reimagining of this history. he is my intervention into it via a “but what if?” lgbtq+ reclamation.
bertie wooster, jeeves and wooster (1990).
differences in positionality, similarities in energy. mannerisms, boater hats, “i say!” and sitting like this.
multidimensionality and intersectionality, babey!
“disco environment was an inclusive and accepting sanctuary. so it was not out on the streets. there was homophobia worse than today.” / “as soon as they entered the disco, they were safe. they were included, accepted, and part of unity.” – studio 54, 2018. documentary.
“i shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise. i was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, maurice and alec still roam the greenwood.” - terminal note to e.m. forster’s maurice.
and of course, all the fainting from the turmoils of heteronormativity: suddenly clive cut in with “i say — i’m going to faint,” and fell off his chair.
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