Artist: Steve Walker

Dinner Date

I seem to be on an art kick here lately.  Never had a single art class, wish I had though.

Thought you boys would enjoy these as much as I did.  Check out many more cool paintings from Canadian artist Steve Walker at his website.

Four Hands, One Heart

Jay and Clayton

Ties

Memory

Rest on the Flight into Fort Lauderdale

Queer History Online

After that last post, I decided I should also post a link to the excellent glbtq.com, "an encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture" - you know, all the stuff they left out of the history books. You should check it out, tons of excellent articles and photographs on all things queer, past and present.

It's important that we claim our own history and heritage, and not let it be deleted from the record ever again. That's one reason, of several, that queer people just don't exist in many straight people's concept of the world - they were never told we existed, and all the evidence that we did was carefully hidden from view. Ours was "the love that dare not speak its name," the "sin too horrible for Christians to mention."

But we are here, we've always been here - and it's way past time to change the way things are taught, don't you think?

And boy, history class sure would have been a lot more interesting if the textbook had had pictures like these, wouldn't it boys?

Paintings by British artist Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929). Click to enlarge.