Where the AIDS crisis devastated 1980s and 90s New York, decimating a generation of creativity, it also fuelled an intercultural discourse that would go on to widen and complicate society’s understanding of sexuality beyond the narrow limitations of heteronormativity. Academia has since rarefied the era’s defining artists (from Nan Goldin and David Wojnarowicz to Robert Mapplethorpe) under the banner of Queer Theory, but many theorists have also overlooked the role of race, ethnicity and…
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