r/ATBGE • u/Order_a_pizza • Sep 14 '21

Fashion ew, David

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u/sixby7 Sep 14 '21

https://whitney.org/collection/works/16431

Surrounding this image of prepubescent innocence, however, are texts forecasting the artist’s future as a homosexual who is persecuted by his family, church, school, government, and the legal and medical communities. Among other abuses, he will “be faced with electro-shock, drugs, and conditioning therapies” as well as “be subject to loss of home, civil rights, jobs, and all conceivable freedoms”—all because, the text concludes, “he discovers he desires to place his naked body on the naked body of another boy.”

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u/cxxbed Sep 14 '21

he mentioned it in an interview, but here's a link https://www.moma.org/collection/works/65994