Dec 28 to Jan 3, 2017! Happy New Year from Gay Palm Springs! DDG THIS WEEK in Gay Palm Springs.

AdamsArtExpose’
PREVENTING REPRESSION IN PERSONAL AND
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
With a new right wing administration about to
take office the increase of repression is inevitable.
The inauguration of a schizophrenic, narcissistic,
multiple personality disordered person in the office
of President of the United States, indicates we
are involved in an interesting time for history.
The LGBT community is especially vulnerable to
the hate mongering appointees Trump has made
to his cabinet and advisers. Starting with Pense
as his Vice President, who has proven to be one of
the most divisive of politicians, as governor of Indiana
opposing gay rights. Trump’s position has
never been decisive when asked about issues from
gender neutral rest rooms to same sex marriage.
He and his cohorts cannot be trusted. There is an
urgent requirement that all people who respect
freedom of expression be prepared to rebut anything
that is put forward from the Trump Administration.
One example of the protection of repression of
artistic expression is found in the Kinsey Institute
for Sex Gender, and Reproduction. Alfred Kinsey
founded the controversial institute in 1947 with
the goal of studying human sexuality. Some of
the issues Kinsey researched were, at the time,
considered taboo and even criminal, and some
still are. The research extended into same sex
relationships, sexual identities, and also into the
representation of sexuality in art. Objects of art
have been donated by owners, artists, and organizations
and sent to the Kinsey Institute at the
University of Indiana in Bloomington, Indiana.
Many of these would have been destroyed or
hidden, especially works by gay artists. For eight
decades the Kinsey Institute has been collecting
and safely protecting works that may be considered
erotic, forbidden, abnormal, etc., from harm.
Famous artists as well as unknown individuals
have sent work that is now over 1000 items.
Works by George Platt Lynes, Mapllethorpe, Paul
Cadmus, among others are part of the collection.
Kinsey made a personal trip to bring some of
the work of George Platt Lynes to Bloomington
to assure Lynes that he would not be arrested for
his work if it were confiscated for an 19th century
Comstock Law which criminalized mailing
of pornographic material. One of those works,
a photograph, is shown here with the embrace
of a black and caucasian man. Also there is the
drawing by Paul Cadmus showing two nude male
models embracing. These are among the many
art works, sex toys, and other memorabilia that
are housed in the Kinsey Institute. Ironically the
institute is located in Indiana where homophobic
Pense was governor.
The motion picture, “Kinsey” about the work of
Alfred Kinsey, played by Leum Neeson, is available
on DVD.
This is the last week of the 111 Art Show at Desert
Patio on Highway 111 in Rancho Mirage. This
show is one to be seen, representing a number of
LGBT local artists.
Questions, comments, suggestions, please contact
at: adamsartexpose@gmail.com
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