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We Were Gonna Be Alright was made in the midst of the anxiety I was feeling as a queer Latinx person during the previous administration. I was extremely worried about our community and the uncertain future we were facing in regards to our freedom to love and marry. You Belong Here is more than a campaign—it's our commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community on TikTok. We believe that people should be able to connect with one another, express themselves authentically, and thrive on the platform. And we know that fostering an inclusive space requires prioritizing the needs of our community. verygaypaint(he/they) (Los Angeles, CA) - Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus are comedians-turned-painters and the duo behind Very Gay Paint, a muralist company centered around their own queerness and colorful designs. From comedic skits to vibrant mural artwork, they entertain and inspire their community while emphasizing their own queerness and colorful designs. We have an exciting 'Pride on LIVE' lineup scheduled for Monday, June 12, that will highlight some of our most innovative queer creators. The programming will be live-streamed from our @tiktoklive_us account and will feature conversations with creators surrounding their career and LGBTQIA+ representation across the creative industry. Be sure to follow @tiktok and @tiktoklive_us for more info on our 'Pride on LIVE' lineup!
The flourishing of gay life in the 1970s soon gave way to the AIDS epidemic of the ’80s. “The whole decade was like a nightmare,” Leslie recalled with a shudder. “We were endlessly at bedsides and memorials and cremations. You’re always with friends trying to do something and you can’t do anything. Three people died in our house.” Everything closed down: the baths, the bars. Even the gallery had to close: “No one came anymore,” Leslie said; artists stopped bringing work. “It was such a pall over the city.” Still, it was during this decade, in 1987, that Leslie and Lohman created their nonprofit foundation, which was accredited as a museum in 2016. Championing and celebrating our LGBTQIA+ employees here at TikTok is something we take seriously year-round. As a part of our company-wide Pride celebration, TikTok's very own LGBTQIA+ employee resource group (ERG) PRIDE will be hosting a series of Pride Month events and internal programs, from LGBTQIA+ film screenings to Pride marches, that celebrate the full spectrum of intersectional identity groups throughout Pride Month and Juneteenth. If you aren’t already hip to Very Gay Paint , now’s the time to smarten up. Founded in July 2020 by Los Angeles-based comedians Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus, Very Gay Paint uses eye-catching colors, clean-lined shapes, and lots of tongue-in-cheek humor to create vibrant paint murals. A s they say: “Turn your walls gay with paint.” The self-portraits I make are a way to release my imperfect parts: humorous, rebellious, bold, self-deprecating, disrespectful, and facing uncomfortable truths head-on. I will be the first to admit that I’m a very flawed human. I used to have mixed feelings about self-portraits, but now I’m beginning to think everyone should make them. It’s a power shift from being defined to defining yourself, a reclaiming of identity. And I see parallels with how society is finally awakening to gender and sexuality. It’s not up to society and its many biases to define us. We, as individuals, should define ourselves.
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Earlier this year, the pair was commissioned to paint a Pride mural on the Santa Monica Pier—their largest exterior paint project to date—and Clare helped them get the job done. (Hint: they used a product we’re launching soon—can you guess what it is?) “We wanted to create something that was joyous yet impactful,” Nicholas says. “Not just a run-of-the-mill rainbow walkway.” Balancing this satire with accidentally finding very real success as muralists has been interesting and unexpected territory for Scheppard and Titus to navigate. The brand voice itself developed in direct response to feeling like they were masquerading as visual artists. “It actually came out of an identity crisis with being perceived so largely as muralists, while we were really dedicated to being performers and comedians,” explained Titus. “A lot of it came from us wanting to undercut what we were doing because we were like, well, we’re not really muralists, we’re comedians. So we want to make sure we’re not taking any of this too seriously.” It has been said that all work to some degree is self-portraiture. Though mine is a less literal or indirect representation, I often include personal items or objects such as bed sheets or vases in my work. I consider these objects of everyday life to be a sort of stand-in for the figure or the self. Each had a “discreet collection” of their own, so joining forces “was another thing that bonded us.” They developed minimal criteria for their buying. It’s a misconception that their collection only features work by gay artists. “You don’t have to be gay,” he clarified. “The art has to resonate with gay people.” Otherwise, a work has “to at least be good,” Leslie said, “unless it’s such horrible junk that it becomes a ding an sich, a thing unto itself”—erotic camp, in other words. Mostly, the pair collected what they liked. (“Every time I hear about someone collecting something as an investment, it makes me almost vomit,” Leslie added.) In many ways, Very Gay Paint is a long-form, drawn-out comedy sketch that Scheppard and Titus have committed to so hard that the muralist characters they’ve developed and play are now actual, real-life muralists. However, they’re clear that these characters are still very much just characters, and always will be.
This isn’t a mindset I like to have, but I often think that making self-portraits is my twisted way to claim authorship over my image and not be misattributed. I’ve experienced being mistaken for someone before, and a friend has been mistaken for me, and that happens in different ways. I’ve had parts of my artist statement used to describe another queer Chinese photographer in a magazine. It might sound silly, but given the frequency of these experiences throughout my life, it’s less silly to me. Ultimately, I just want to say, “I was here, this is my work, and it may have done something for you.” Keyboard shortcuts are supported in this dialog, and for mobile devices with small screens, I made it Eye Gaze Mode could use brush stroke smoothing, and Speech Recognition could use Artificial General Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He appropriated poetry, drawing, and painting, and married text and image, abstraction, figuration, and historical information mixed with contemporary critique. Looking ahead, the duo hopes to continue to make meaningful paint murals that change the way people look at both art and comedy. “ Very Gay Paint gives us a new way to focus on performance art that still feels nostalgic,” Jenson says. “But our first love will always be comedy.”So much representation in media has been so intense,” Jenson said. “Gay films are always very intense, like about AIDS, or there’s Queer Eye. But you don’t get to see this down-to-earth view of gay people poking fun of themselves.” And if your date has a problem with the color of your genitals after getting close enough to see them, it probably wasn't going to work out anyway. The piece I selected for my self-portrait is a silicon body cast of my chest being pierced with iron oxidized nails. It is also bound to rebar wires that become ornamental elements of beauty, yet function as a material used to reinforce my body. I am fusing the organic with the industrial as signifiers of transformation and of the self-inflicted violence and modifications my body endures while maintaining its structural capacity to perform. This piece is a part of a larger series of works entitled “Antithesis,” which investigates discourses pertaining to gender identity, identity politics, technology, body dysmorphia, bio-politics, and many other topics that echoe the structure of society. The end result is a vibrant mural marked by crisp geometric shapes that the pair managed to complete in just one week. “This felt like more of a Bauhaus-inspired riff on the typical gay rainbow,” Nicholas explains. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.
Such objects clarify that centuries of erotic art have existed out in the open, barely concealed through evocations of antiquity and other allegorical guises. How does he go about finding them? “Once we were established as collectors,” Leslie explained, “we’d get these calls from people we’d never heard of.” Dealers and artists came out of the woodwork. “There simply were not other avenues to publicly show this work,” he said. For artists, self-portraiture can be a powerful act of self-reflection. In making themselves the focus of their work, the artist reveals and expresses elements of their identity, on their own terms. They determine gesture, form, light, color, and the inclusion or exclusion of body parts; what we see is something that the artist sees within themselves, an assertion of selfhood and visibility. “It’s a power shift from being defined to defining yourself,” said artist Alannah Farrell. “A reclaiming of identity.” This image was shot while I was attending an artist residency in Iceland in April 2019, where I created imagery that looks at the correlation between Icelandic folklore of Huldufólk (“Hidden people”) and my body as a nonbinary person, both visible and invisible. The self-portraits were shot in the landscape with its shifting tectonic plates, heavy winds, and constant state of change. Furthermore, these images explore the idea of a trans body as a natural body, becoming one with nature, both always in flux.
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My understanding is that there are no gay men who paint their nails; I would be ignorant to the extent that I know this. In a nutshell, it is a way of saying “Yep, that’s right, I’m a cool dude.” The procedure is less invasive and less permanent than piercings, and it can be avoided before a prospective employer’s next interview. In the past, there was a ban on nail varnish for people in the upper classes, regardless of gender. Women painted their nails to indicate their cleanliness around the turn of the century in France. In the 1930s, companies such as Revlon marketed red and pink nail polish directly to female customers. On a purely aesthetic level, nail polish does not work well for men. Well, this project has the somewhat unique opportunity to reuse localizations from an existing program, After completing an in-home project for a client that worked for the Santa Monica Pier, Nicholas and Jenson say they were commissioned to create a full-fledged exterior paint mural in honor of Pride Month. “It was our first project on concrete ground,” Nicholas says. “Pride Month is about celebrating a community that has experienced so much darkness,” Nicholas says. “It’s a reminder that we’re resilient yet joyous as we protest the work that still needs to be done.” JS Paint now lets you copy real image data to the Clipboard, both with keyboard shortcuts and from the Totally new pixel art coloring book by numbers with fascinating pixel art paint by numbers images is finally here. Ultimate de-stress and relaxing coloring by number coloring book is suitable for any taste and ages. This pixel coloring book is perfect pixel art paint by number therapy that will let your stress go away. Try LGBT Color by Number for Adults coloring book with easy & challenging pixel art pictures JUST FOR YOU to relax. Color by number anywhere. Relax. Enjoy!
Though the gallery was “above-grade,” cops showed up anyway. Ever the smooth-talker, Leslie greeted them: “Oh hello, officers, are you here to see the show?” The police tried in vain to convince Leslie not to hang the paintings on the walls. “They were so clumsy, they didn’t know what they were doing,” Leslie said. At the end of it, “the police couldn’t do anything. It was painting!” Coloring by numbers games for adults are the newest coloring craze! Try dozens of free LGBT paint by number images or create your own pixel art masterpiece! Paint by numbers coloring books for adults are popular all over the world and you will not be able to resist the best pixel art coloring by number game! Join paint by number craze and start to color by number fascinating pixel art images! I don’t ordinarily ask the creatives I interview which design trends are gay. In fact, I would have guessed questions like that are offensive. But when talking to Nicholas Scheppard and Jenson Titus, Founders, Co-Owners, and comedians who paint at Very Gay Paint, it feels like the right thing to do.There are many synonyms for commands, and often you can do things with very short phrases like "Curve" Starting from the name Very Gay Paint, it’s obvious that the crux of the brand’s comedy is their over-emphasis on Scheppard and Titus being gay. This idea stemmed from the duo finding it ridiculous how society will view someone’s identification as gay as making whatever they do inherently special and significant. Despite my best efforts, I am still perplexed as to why it doesn’t work. In my high school, there were some gothy/drama boys and a few grunge guys who wore nail polish. It’s not as serious as it sounds. Kahlo's interests in politics and art led to her joining the Mexican Communist Party in 1927, through which she met fellow Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The couple married in 1928, and spent the late 1920s and early 1930s travelling in Mexico and the United States together. During this time, she developed her artistic style, drew her main inspiration from Mexican folk culture, and painted mostly small self-portraits which mixed elements from pre-Columbian and Catholic beliefs. Her paintings raised the interest of Surrealist artist André Breton, who arranged for Kahlo's first solo exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York in 1938. drdre4000 (he/him)(Boston, MA) - Andre Isaacs, an associate professor of chemistry, uses his platform to push the envelope on the capacity of the STEM community and challenges normative STEM culture through dances, skits, and educational content to demonstrate what an inclusive space could look like for the next generation of scientists, primarily those with marginalized identities.
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