Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (May 15 - October 19, 2018) at tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook40.blogspot.com.

At Highest Point, Kiangan, Benguet

At Highest Point, Kiangan, Benguet
2013, at Highest Point, Kiangan, Benguet, during the conservation project for the Kabayan Mummy Caves. Funded by the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and the National Museum of the Philippines. Photo by JR Dalisay

Monday, December 31, 2018

One thing continues to disturb me on the threshold to 2019: Why is it that heterosexual art can be anything at all, whereas so-called "gay art or queer art" is almost always about naked men? Can't a gay or queer artist paint a landscape, a woman's portrait, or an abstract picture and call it "gay art or queer art"? And what about other LGBTQ persons who DON'T like paintings of naked men?

In the last analysis, why even categorize art along the artist's or the patron's gender and sexual preference?

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