Sentences with phrase «american gay culture»

Add to this new films, split across the Venice Days, Orrizzonti and Out of Competition sidebars, from an array of interesting names including Chantal Akerman («Almayer's Folly»), Mary Harron («The Moth Diaries»), Al Pacino («Wilde Salome,» the cast of which includes — you'll never guess — Jessica Chastain) and even James Franco (here furthering his friendship with American gay culture with a biopic of 1950s teen idol Sal Mineo) and there should be more than enough to explore even once the festival has blown its pre-Toronto load.

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«As evangelicals and the main currency of American culture converge, an increasing number of gay students are going to say, «Wait a minute.

And perhaps this view, which until fairly recently was dominant in American culture and law, and which still exercises influence (in, for example, significant publications such as First Things), helps to explain why many gays and lesbians still, as Reno says, «feel put upon.»

«Ex-gay movement members, like other conservative Christians, view themselves as part of a positive transformation of American culture and religious life, often describing themselves as embattled or besieged by secular culture or the gay rights movement.

I can't say for sure if I think being gay is a choice or decided by nature, but it TO ME it seems like most gay people come from a dysfunctional family or didn't fit in with their all american peers and found comfort in the gay culture.

Instead, gays and lesbians are portrayed as a faceless sex - obsessed hoard representing a dark and ominous force in American culture.

The lack of even one openly gay or lesbian living astronaut in the history of American spaceflight may reflect the culture at the NASA astronaut office

23 As Jones and Jonathan D. Katz have convincingly argued, silence emerged as Cage's primary means of countering the fervently expressive, highly individualistic machismo associated with Abstract Expressionism.24 It was a construct that gave him room to act independently as an artist in a world dominated by the abstract expressionist paradigm and to create space for himself as a gay man in the atmosphere of homophobia that permeated postwar American culture.

Ischar's early work, the documentary photographs collected in the series Marginal Waters (1985) and Honor Among (1987), participated in then - contemporary debates around gender and representation, with a particular emphasis on problems of masculinity in American gay male culture.

Gay has exhibited her work at prestigious venues and events including the Chattanooga African American Museum, the Hammonds House Museum, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Emory University, Mason Murer, and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.

After the legendary street fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died, writing in the New Yorker, Hilton Als distilled his interest in women and African American culture, particularly gay black men, noting that he «saw us all.»

«Some Gay - Lesbian Artists and / or Artists relevant to Homo - Social Culture» «V - American Male Bodies / English Lads / Melancholy», 2007 collage, computer printouts on wooden board 140 x 600 cm

Hippie, punk and grunge culture, pacifism, feminism, the gay movement, even New Age religion owe much of their style and esprit to the Beats who preceded them - who were themselves inspired by the art created out of oppression by African Americans.

The sixth in a series of cross-cultural symposia organized by Lucy Lippard, the four artists interviewed here — gay activist and self portrait artist Lyle Ashton Harris, Chicano photographer and tourist Robert Buitron, Cherokee writer, curator, and video creator Rayna Green, photography critic and professor at University of California - Irvine Catherine Lord, and Chinese - American video artist Valerie Soe — discuss the role of photography and creation of culture.