ABSTRACT
Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Art in America published a set of interviews with a dozen gay and lesbian artists in June 1994. One of the points that emerges is the overriding significance of Andy Warhol to a new generation of queer artists. Deborah Kass, for instance, says:
I find Andy so fascinating because he was the first queer artist—I mean queer in the political sense we mean queer. While some of his homosexual contemporaries were into coding and veiling and obscuring, Andy really made pictures about what it was like being a queer guy in the ’50s. He was the first big queer-boy artist and he really made these pictures of the inside of his queer brain, from the women’s shoes on.
(Cotter 1984:57)