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From Stephen Elliott
Artist David Wojnarowicz died twenty years ago this past Sunday, on July 22, 1992, from complications caused by AIDS.
Cynthia Carr has written a new biography of Wojnarowicz called Fire in the Belly.
Dwight Garner reviewed that book last week at The New York Times.
...more“The two men shared a romance with violence and danger. Rimbaud was shot in the wrist by his lover, Paul Verlaine, as he tried to break off their affair.
Wojnarowicz was shot at by a drag queen who mistook his knock at her door for the arrival of an unfaithful lover.”
...moreFor me, having been inculcated with pictures of a bloody, naked man nailed to a tree since I was five, any discussion of obscenity, homo-eroticism or sexual violence begins with Jesus, or at least the Jesus that hangs in churches, around necks and is furiously waved in the faces of “sodomites.”
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