victortrevors: newmuseum: On the occasion of Pride Month, we’re looking back at our own histor
victortrevors: newmuseum: On the occasion of Pride Month, we’re looking back at our own history of LGBTQ pride. “David Wojnarowicz: A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress (1986-87)” (1999) David Wojnarowicz is a widely respected artist whose first U.S. retrospective was held at the New Museum in 1999. The film, A Fire in My Belly, A Work in Progress (1986-87) is a poetic meditation on man, life, death, faith, and suffering made in part as a response to the AIDS-related death of his close friend, artist Peter Hujar. “The New Museum has always defended freedom of expression and continues to oppose censorship. We cannot afford to take hard won civil liberties for granted and need to remain vigilant and protect artistic freedom,” said Lisa Phillips, Toby Devan Lewis Director. This is great, but Hujar was more than just his “close friend.” They were lovers; and to erase their relationship (a relationship which had a huge influence on the flim) and then turn around and talk about the importance of censorship opposition is foolish and hypocritical.Erasing the romantic relationship between two gay men who died from AIDS is especially vile, because silencing and suppressing them was the very thing that killed them. Wojnarowicz literally worked on a filmed titled “Silence=Death.” He gave the producer clips from “Fire In My Belly” to include in it.Please reconsider how you write posts like this. Context (especially for things like this) matters. Acknowledgment of relationships matter. peter and david were gay and david drew a pic of peter sleeping and dreaming of a guy jacking off -- source link
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