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Eyes, Lilacs & Spunk: Gay Aesthetic from Suggestion into Abstraction

“There's a touch of homosexual in all of us. It's not the cock. And it's not the twat. It's the eyes, don't you grasp, and sometimes the inhale of lilac.”

— Tallulah Bankhead (to Bea Arthur in conversation, traveling by train, mid-1950s)

I’ve been publishing Spunk [arts] Magazine since 2003. Because the majority of its contributors would identify as homosexual, and because some of the art featured in the publication is of an erotic nature, people frequently associate me with “gay art.” When they verbalize this association to me I correct them saying “I’m not interested in gay art; I’m interested in a queer aesthetic.”

The association is understandable, but the difference between what I think of as gay art and what I refer to as a queer aesthetic is significant. What people refer to as homosexual art would be, I believe, more accurately described as homoerotic art. And while I may be personally moved by (pun intended) some homoerotic art (e.g. Tom of Finland) and love the history of it (Physique Pictorial, etc.), I am not particularly “interested” in it.

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