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Jonathan Carver Moore art gallery.
I was scrolling Instagram and I got this advert for the Jonathan Carver Moore Art Gallery. So I decided to check it out. He is stated that he is a “gay Black male gallerist in San Francisco.”
So who are the LGBTQ+ artists? I follow the arrow.
None of the art seems to be Gay or Lesbian and no cocks.
You can see the images also at this article.
A lot of the artists in his instagram are queer or exploring queer identity, it isn’t clear that they are actually Gay men. Queer is an elastic definition that basically is anything that isn’t some obviously patriarchal masculine stereotype.
Also, it isn’t clear what Jonathan Carver Moore is. I tried to find out, but I wasn’t able to find a answer. “Gay” in the LGBTQXYZ ideology could be a transman.
I am NOT saying that none of the art in Jonathan Carver Moore is of interest to Gays. I am noting the ommissions (or fears) of his art gallery.
I am NOT saying these artists don’t deserve to be in art galleries. I am saying that LGBTQ+ is basically not Gay.
About Cocks and Gay art
I don’t expect every piece of Gay art to show a cock.
However, when a cock is NEVER shown, there is an agenda.
When you point out that an artist never shows a penis, they try to thow back a false opposite that I am expecting all Gay art to show a penis.
Transman Agenda
I have found transmen claiming to be Gay doing photographic art which omits penises, because that allows them to represent themselves in a collection of supposed Gay men.
For example this article about Anthony Patrick Manieri’s photographes in Out magazine. Lots and lots of rhetoric. If you look carefully, there is a body with a tattoo where the scares for breast removal might be. You will not see any cock. That would make point out the difference between a man and a transman.
https://www.arrestedmovement.com/about
Widely known Chinese artist Musk Ming never shows a cock. You don’t realize it at first, but as you look at the 30th photo you then realized it. I asked him whether he was a transman and he said that was an intersting question. HOWEVER, there might be another agenda.
Respectability Agenda.
“What will the straight art community think!?” is another agenda. They are afraid of possible stereotypes of being a Gay artist.
All pictures are supposed to represent a dry sterile pure aesthetics and beauty and it would just be horrifying if it awakened desire. In the art world you could not get a picture of a man with an erection in any art gallery. (I am sure there might be come exception somewhere on the planet, but essentially this statement is true.)
Though this idea against nudes is restricted to male nudes, and not female nudes in art. There is a horror by straight men being objects of desire.
A lot of Gay men are afraid of having any Gay art on the wall. They may be out, but they still worry what the straight people will thing. So a lot of Gays won’t purchase Gay art. I discuss this in this post. In the past Gays visiting sometimes were alarmed that I have Gay art on my walls upstairs.
This was the Reddit response. The upvote was 86%, which means 14% of the vote was against doing this, and they were quit vocal against it in their comments. There were 210 comments and 56k views.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaybros/comments/11ary0t/do_you_have_gay_art_on_the_walls_of_your_place_do/
So a supposed “Gay” art piece which shows anxieties of queer people in the modern world and is very abstract is something some Gay customers can put on the walls, and feel very avant-garde and radical Gay and real social warriors, but it really is about fearing what straight people think.
A lot of supposedly progressive ideas in the LGBTQXYZ are a cover for Gays who are closeted or obsessed with what straight people might think.
Some Gay artists creating for the Gay community do show erections and exaggerated penises, but I think this is in reaction to the general art world’s taboos. Or they might just be having fun, and that is okay also.
What does LGBTQ+ art say about the art world.
There is discomfort with Gay male sexuality.
LGBTQ+ represents a strategy to seem inclusive when you are actually exclusive.
Also, it sure occurs to trans men that Gay art that shows a cock is art that shows that possibly, maybe, they aren’t men.
The situation for Gay artists creating for Gays.
They are excluded from the LGBTQ+ art galleries. Looking at the art gallery collections online at LGBTQXYZ museums and galleries you will see almost entirely, if not entirely omit art that the average Gay would be interested in.
The Gay artists are left to contend with the censorship on Facebook, Instagram, Etsy, and other platforms. They have to get their art on X and hope people discover it. They won’t be show in the LGBTQ+ art galliers.
It is my program to counter this.
On X I make a point of reposting all the Gay artists art that shows up in my feed and look for new Gay artists.
That is why I created this directory post showcasing 40+ artists. Warning. There are actually cocks in some of this art. And, get out your smelling salts, some erections! The cover of this post is so I can share it on Facebook and Instagram.
You may condemn AI Gay art, but it doesn’t exclude Gays.
Gays can’t see themselves in Gay art, so they create the Gay art that the LGBTQ+ gallery won’t show and the LGBTQ+ Gay artists won’t create.
The corporate online AI image tools certainly do exclude Gay male desire, but there are the programs and databases which can be downloaded and which an individual can create AI Gay art.
Related Posts.
The Gay art page has links to the other directory of Gay art in different venues.
This was Gayer than some of the art at the Jonathan Carver Moore gallery.
I'm so shocked that it's true.