The Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe |
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Sunday, October 17, 7:00pm Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is “a town at the end of a road to nowhere.” Here, queers & cowboys, eccentrics & Christian fundamentalists all share a somewhat shaky but peaceful coexistence. This is the town that gay artist Delmas Howe calls home. A pioneer of explicit gay-themed works, Howe’s latest project is “Stations: A Gay Passion,” a large-scale series of male nudes set against the wild-side sexual milieu of the Chelsea Piers in pre-AIDS New York City (where the artist spent the ‘60s and ‘70s). It deploys iconic references from the biblical Stations of the Cross. Howe relates the suffering of Christ to that of gays and lesbians due to fear, hatred, discrimination, and AIDS. Perhaps most poignantly, TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES paints a portrait of the experience of the last generation that came of age before gay liberation.
Northwest Film Forum Cinema |
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