Excerpt from an 2006 untitled text written by artist Henrik Olsen and distributed as part of the LGBTQIA+ History exhibition in the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) in 2025.
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In response to the police censorship of Flaming Creatures, on 13 April 1964, Susan Sontag wrote a defense review in the Nation, titled A Feast for Open Eyes.⁶⁰ However, by framing the work of Smith outside any relations to same-sex practices, anti-gay legalization, or homosexual cultural history as…