Author: Elan Justice Pavlinich (he, him)

Elan Justice Pavlinich (he, him)

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LNX’s Acid Trip from Creation to Doom

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July 2, 2021 4

Think You Don’t Know Any Gay People?

By Elan Pavlinich

This student had never encountered LGBT cultures before. He knew about gay-bashing, but he did not know any gay people. Suddenly he had an openly queer professor.

March-April 2023
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Essays

Jean Lorrain, Ambassador from Sodom

By Laurence Senelick: “As unctuous as a frosted pastry,” Lorrain became known, in the words of Philippe Jullian, as “the Petronius of the decadence ... the best observer of a milieu of which he was also the worst ornament” (Figure 3).

Art

The Inscrutable John Singer Sargent

By Andrew Holleran: When people would knock on his door asking for work, Sargent, if interested, would invite them in and ask them to remove their clothes “so I can see your figure.” One of these was Nicola D’Inverno, an amateur boxer who became not only Sargent’s model but his studio manager and valet for 25 years

Art

Joining the Rosa Bonheur Revival

By Emily L. Quint Freeman: Bonheur painted herself into The Horse Fair as a participant, dressed in the standard attire of the other (all male) riders.

Essays

Gustave Courtois in the Paris Salon

By Eduardo A. Febles: One journalist accused Courtois of bad taste for showing the athlete bare-chested, while another speculated on the artist’s experience of pleasure while executing the work: “What intense pleasure M. Gustave Courtois must have felt while giving shape to the triumphant torso of the athlete Maurice de Riaz! How he has caressed its sinuous contours!”
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1. March 22, 2023 Manuel Muñoz on the Power of LGBTQ Characters
2. March 15, 2023 Review of the Exhibit, Queer Maximalism
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