It has to be said - the gay male "art" scene is boring as fuck.
There; I said it. It's just bland. It's the same images that we've seen for the past fifty years. It's as if every gay photographer and artist has the following checklist:
Male - Y / N
Muscles - Y / N
Body Hair - Y / N
Facial Hair - Y / N
Black & White - Y / N
I understand that the gay male community, particularly the Leather community, have this pre-conceived notion of what is "hot," but is it really too much to ask that we step outside those boundaries?
I raise this subject because in the past week, I've had several posts on my Facebook wall displaying the "hot" work of various photographers, and frankly, they all look the same. The models are, of course, different, but it's the same poses, filters, body types, backgrounds - nothing out of the ordinary, provocative, or interesting about them.
The men are without question aesthetically pleasing, in and of themselves, but I have to ask, "Is there some kind of compendium of stock photos for gay art books that everyone's trying to be included in, lately?"
Don't get me wrong, it's not that these photos shouldn't exist - even the most boring, vanilla porn has a home in someone's spank bank - but, it feels as if gay artists and photographers have lost the initiative to create something unique since the 1970s.
On the other hand, straight-based artists and advertisers are re-imagining traditional gender roles and putting men in poses and settings that have almost always been the arena of female models. While our straight counterparts (possibly informed by gay males on staff) have been breaking ground into new territory and pissing off One Million Moms, gay artists don't even merit a mention from those frothing cows.
And to that, I say, "What the fuck, people? What...the...fuck?"
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