![]() It's great that it's no longer a taboo for men to show this kind of everyday affection." "The work reminds me that it's a common occurrence to see a gay couple holding hands waiting on a subway platform in New York City. Nicholas Baume, public art fund director and chief curator, agreed. On the contrary, the work naturalizes gayness within the fabric of the city, and in so doing, that's actually an even more powerful message," he said. "What makes it a turning point is it isn't gayness singled out and made the theme. ![]() Thor Stockman, right, and Patrick Kellogg pose for a portrait in their apartment in New York on Dec. But that work, featuring two men standing and two women sitting, is expressly commemorative of a political moment.Ī work like Muniz's is long overdue in a city "ostensibly the epicenter of both the art world and the gay movement," said Katz, director of the doctoral program in visual culture studies at SUNY Buffalo and the former executive coordinator of the Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale University. He mentioned George Segal's "Gay Liberation Monument" near Stonewall Inn, the site of the 1969 riots that launched the gay rights movement. Jonathan David Katz, an expert in queer art history, said he could find no other example of a permanent, non-political LGBTQ public artwork in New York City.
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