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1 year ago (15 June 2011)
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▲ Jonathan Curiel at SF Weekly: A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy

Street art is dominated by straight men,” says Homo Riot, who came to San Francisco in January to festoon the Haight and Castro districts with stickers of his bearded kissers. “There’s a lot of misogynistic stuff that passes for street art. There are images of women in provocative setups; there’s tits and ass all over. As a gay man, and even as a young boy, I wanted to see images of men. That’s what I was attracted to. But in our culture, we have such taboo surrounding the penis and male sexuality that’s not directed at women.”

That taboo is evident when Homo Riot puts up his stencils in popular L.A. street-art spaces and within hours sees his work violently defaced. He says the attacks happen to a small but significant portion of his work. The men’s faces get Xed out or scratched off — which is hard to do, since he uses a special paste that adheres the work tightly. Still, he says, some straight street artists have given him “support and encouragement,” even lauding his kissing figures, who go by the name Homo Duo.

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