This homo is extremely annoyed with the lack luster quality of gay art being produced in this decade. By gay art I refer to art which specifically addresses LGBT themes or issues. There's been some interesting developments in design and advertising but actual Art with the capital "A" has been severely lacking. For one thing though, if your art isn't erotic, you've gotten over your coming out phase and you're fairly well adjusted, its kind of hard to make good work about LGBT issues that isn't seriously depressing. I mean there are a lot of really important issues that need to be discussed (HIV, Gay bashing, disconnect of identities for LGBT persons of color, those horrible ex-gay ministries, the legal battles LGBT parents go through, etc.) but if every piece you see on gay issues is negative or depressing, eventually you just go numb to it all and you stop taking in the information.
That is part of the reason why I think works of art that show the world as we'd like it to be are so effective. We see this piece and really want to just stand there and soak it up as much as possible because its the world as we know it could be and should be, the way we wish everything worked, and then the message really has a chance to soak in and there's a driving passion to create that world we saw.
I want to live in a world where true love exists and princes fall in love.
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