
Gay Utopia
October 13, 2009
Trolling around and found a site dedicated to queer art. It houses quite a few artists, thankfully from a wide range of the queer spectrum, with an emphasis on writing. I’m more a visual and audio guy, but I was very impressed with Gay Utopia‘s mission and inclusion. From the introduction:
“The gay utopia is an imaginary future in which gender, sexuality, and identity are fluid and in which pleasure is unregulated by either external or internal censors. It’s a place where taboos dissolve and sublimation vanishes; every relationship is erotic, every action sensual.”
Two of my favorites include Dewayne Slightweight and Edie Falke. Slightweight’s series ‘The Kinship Structure of Ferns’ is rewarding with closer inspections. Click on the photo for the larger image.
Edie Fake has an aesthetic that really demonstrates a worldview-cyborgs and fairy tales jostle with sex in simple, unrefined lines, referencing the un-innocent childhood we all tend to have. LOVING. He’ll also tattoo you.

*Edie Fake – “Coat of Arms”


[...] these drawings are as much reflection as projection. Of the two awardees, Edie Fake has been featured on TPR before – his blunt palette is far more nuanced than his primary school style [...]