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"Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love"

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Without the public works we are nothing...I ask the public to help me, to take responsibility, to become part of my work, to join in."

-Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Untitled" (Loverboy) (1989)

Leonard DiVinci

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt," Leonardo da Vinci famously said. He invented sfumato, an application of subtly colored glazes, to convey atmosphere and the subtle shifts of feeling across a human face.

Detail from Leonardo's <i>Virgin on the Rocks</i> (1491-92)

Rainbowland

Living in a Rainbowland Where everything goes as planned And I smile 'Cause I know if we try, we could really make a difference in this world I won't give up, I'll sleep a wink It's the only thought I think, you know where I stand I believe we can start living in a Rainbowland

Living in a Rainbowland Where you and I go hand in hand Oh, I'd be lying if I said this was fine All the hurt and the hate going on here We are rainbows, me and you Every color, every hue Let's shine on through Together, we can start living in a Rainbowland

Living in a Rainbowland The skies are blue and things are grand Wouldn't it be nice to live in paradise Where we're free to be exactly who we are Let's all dig down deep inside Brush the judgment and fear aside Make wrong things right And end the fight 'Cause I promise ain't nobody gonna win (come on)

Living in a Rainbowland Where you and I go hand in hand Oh, I'd be lying if I said this was fine All the hurt and the hate going on here We are rainbows, me and you Every color, every hue Let's shine on through Together, we can start living in a Rainbowland

Living in a Rainbowland Where you and I go hand in hand together (let's do it together) Chase dreams forever I know there's gonna be a greener land We are rainbows, me and you Every color, every hue Let's shine on Together, we can start living in a Rainbowland

Andy Warhol

"A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.”

–Andy Warhol

Campbell's Soup I (1968)

Lisette Model

"Shoot from the gut:"

-Lisette Model

 

Gambler Type, French Riviera (1934)

Annie Leibovitz

"You don't have to sort of enhance reality, there is nothing stranger than the truth."

-Annie Leibovitz

Mick Jagger, Buffalo, NY (1975)

n.l rivera

to whom it may concern
n.l rivera

did you know

that angels have no gender?

I’m not so close to blasphemy

as to say that I am celestial,

but I have always felt

less like ashes,

more like eternal flames,

and excessive eyes,

and wings

that are not quite part

of this dimension.

I am closer to a thousand spinning rings of gold

than I am to “man or woman”

no label

has ever fit me

call me, instead, a suggestion,

a hollow vibration of a voice,

be not afraid.

call me the ceiling

of the cistine chapel,

before it was painted over,

when it had no heavens,

no allegiance.

you fear what my existence might mean.

I am abundant. angelic. absurd.

so, call me He

in the same way the christians address

their genderless god.

call me They,

for no human perception is broad enough

to encompass the vastness

of my expression.

consider me,

if you must,

as a heaventhing.

you cannot restrict me to your binaries.

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