BREAKING THE GAY CODE IN ART

This YouTube channel features the Lecture series HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT – BREAKING THE GAY CODE IN ART that I'm conducting in Universities, LGBTQ Centers and via Zoom around the world.

The Lecture series  reveals with stunning imagery how, throughout history, gay artists faced the dilemma of staying in the closet or being out with their art and lives and, in doing so, risking rejection and prosecution. Unable to express their same-sex desires openly, many iconic gay artists used secret gay codes or homoerotic images hiding in plain sight. In doing so, their extraordinary work transformed mainstream culture.

In spite of this, most Museums refuse to acknowledge an artist's queerness. This erasure creates the false belief that queerness is irrelevant to their work and that same-sex desire is just a footnote in art history. 

My goal is to incite change by enlightening educators and the public at large on the extraordinary queer heritage in art history, which has been widely ignored.