'Our Project Is Gay' makes an artist's statement: Homosexuality is Art...the essay including professional lesbian novelist Sage Sweetwater's lesbian poem 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'

Gay as Art:

The Beauty of Same-Sex
Love In Writing.

Our Project:
Homosexuality as Art.

"Instead of constructing homosexuality in the language of negatives, we want to construct it in terms of what it is.  Beautiful.  It's hard to communicate the beauty of same-sex love when one is always defending it from accusations, of perversion, disease, and insanity.

"The better defense, we think, is to show it, not as "not," but as the beautiful thing that it is.  And in order to show something as a work of art, you must use the language of art.  And only the artist can do that.

"So we have compiled an expansive though hardly exhaustive list of queer artists who have projects similar to our own: to show homosexuality as the subject of an artwork, and as an artwork within itself.  They are a diverse group, varying in artistic medium, amateur/professional status, gender/sexual identity, sexual orientation, etc, but they are tied together by this beauty they see in same-sex love.  And through their art, they project and work to create not just an optimistic future, but an optimistic present."





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