His drawings of fantastically muscled men engrossed in acts of homoerotic desire comprise one of the most inventive portrayals of the human body in modern times. These pictures of gay men as virile, confident, and unashamed—equally …. These pictures of gay men as virile, confident, and unashamed—equally radical for their near-illicit, underground distribution—originated an empowering queer iconography and liberating spirit that has marked popular culture, art, fashion, and human rights.
Over a career that spanned nearly fifty years, he produced thousands of images beginning in the s, robbing straight homophobic culture of its most virile and masculine archetypes; bikers, hoodlums, lumberjacks, cops, cowboys, and sailors, and recasting them—through deft skill and fantastic imagination—unapologetic, self-aware, and boastfully proud enthusiasts of gay sex.
The artist was diagnosed with emphysema in Eventually, the disease and medication caused his hands to tremble, leading him to switch mediums from pencil to pastels.
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