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…
A FEAST FOR OPEN EYES
Susan Sontag
April 13, 1964
Editor’s Note: As stated in the editorial “Flaming Censorship” in The Nation of March 30, Flaming Creatures is one of two films recently seized by New York City police on. the grounds of obscenity. The other is Genet’s Chant d'Amour. Jonas Mekas, editor of Film Culture, was arrested at the showings, the trials for these two films have been scheduled for April 6 and 13 respectively.
The only thing to…
Male Gaze - The Movie / Every Pseudo Intellectual Sad White Boy’s Wet Dream. Two beautiful women that only open their mouths to talk about sex are suffering for a jobless pretentious french guy that has no attractives whatsoever (because knowing some poems and film directors’ names doesn’t make you an interesting person). He is not funny, not good humored, not intelligent and not beautiful, but somehow he feels entitled and confident enough to stalk and harass…
[Amor jovem e a passagem do tempo]
- Nunca tens medo, num momento de grande felicidade, por saber que não pode durar sempre, que um dia vai passar e nunca mais voltar a se repetir?
- Deus vem onde não é mencionado.
- Não sei se tenho a tua fé.
- Isso é a vida, João.
- Então a vida é assim.
- É.
Já me ocorreu uma conversa exatamente assim (salvo a mudança de palavras), quando eu era jovem…
