Post #138669 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Feb 1, 2005 8:42 AM

I am very happy to hear that Gabe's partner gave his blessing to post his work, that's mostly what I was worried about. Just because Gabe is dead it doesn't mean he doesn't deserve that consideration.

And I am sorry, but I saw no warning for the adult nature of the DVD links before Hanford added it, that was the other thing that worried me.

As I said I have a lot of gay friends, very talented artists, and for most of them their sexuality is not an issue, it simply never comes up. Just like we heteros do not discuss if we are into S&M or foot fetishism when we talk about Tiki. It is a private matter that does not pertain to our common artistic interests. It has nothing to do with being closeted, just private.

I see that in Kemush's case it was not possible to show his work and keep that apart, he purposely used his talent to express his sexuality, in a very joyful and creative way. (But he did use a pen name).

He seems so much like a child of the pre-aids 70s, where free sexuality was the ideal, his drawing style is very 70s art nouveaux. That expressive spirit of sexual liberation seems so dated now, hard to understand, it came as counter-reaction to the repressive 50s. Hey, with the religious right targeting Spounge Bob as gay we might be headin' that way again. And believe me, that was not the corner I was coming from, my concerns were about privacy and the porn links.

Gabe made some mug sketches for me and Otto. Otto's is a pornographic female sketch that raised our eye brows. Gabe got a chuckle out of that, just like he would have out of this thread.