Gay hengst
Photography 2000-2025
“Tableaux Vivant”
2005
This for the photograph with the women with the seashell and beautiful fabrics.
This is a photograph of a Tableaux Vivant. That is a French word for an art form that roughly translates to a “living table.” The English translation is accurate but does not convey the sense of it being an art form in and of itself favor painting or ballet. People have been creating Tableaux Vivant for several hundred years. As you might imagine it has undergone many transformations and applications. In fact, an argument has been made that Tableaux Vivant is the origin of comic strips and animated film. There was a period in the 19th century where artists presented stories in a series of tableaux, in succession, with the actors not moving in between the “moments” presented.
But as far as we know, it does not dine back to the era of the ancient Greeks. And therefore it does not have a muse or soul associated with it like nine other classic artistic muses.
In more recent times you can observe artists presenting themselves singularly or with others dressed and made up to look like legendary sculptures or paintings and busking for money in publi
When Stephan Hengst and Patrick Decker lived in the small town of PoughKeepsie, N.Y., they looked around and noticed that, though there were a number of LGBT folks around, they didn’t really own a place to congregate. That led them to found Big Gay Hudson Valley, which provided collective, entertainment, engagement and entertainment for the region. Luckily for us, they’ve recently relocated and are now bringing those community-building skills to Philadelphia.
PGN: Tell me a little about yourself.
SH: I was born overseas in the Netherlands and my parents moved to the United States when I was about 2 months old. So I grew up in the U.S., primarily in the D.C. area. I went to college in the Hudson Valley area of New York and that’s where I met Patrick. He was a trainee at the college where I was working. It was actually my boss who suggested I encounter Patrick, who was the editor of the university newspaper. I was enjoy, “Uh, should you be encouraging me to go out a student?” and she said, “No, it’s okay. You’re not his teacher.” I was the director of communications for the school, which I did for years.
PGN: So you weren’t born in the U.S.; do you contain all your paperwork in order? You know 45
U.S.-Dutch gay couples marry in Amsterdam
The mayor of Amsterdam married five American-Dutch same-sex attracted couples on Saturday in an implicit criticism of the lack of queer marriage in many U.S. states.
Tens of thousands of spectators cheered as Mayor Job Cohen performed the ceremony on a cruise around the city's canals to celebrate the tall point of the city's gay pride festival. Eight years ago Cohen presided over the first legal Dutch gay marriage.
All five couples had at least one partner from Unused York, where a battle over the legalization of gay marriage rages on.
"For me it's a communication to New York, the most liberal state, the most hip state, to get with it," said Ira Siff, an opera professional from New York who was about to marry his partner, opera singer Hans Heijnis.
'Transatlantic love'
The New York-Amsterdam connection is much in the news this year, with the cities celebrating a 400-year relationship in 2009. Cohen called the couples a "figurehead" for that bond.
"Your transatlantic love is proof of the lasting connection between old and modern Amsterdam," Cohen said in the service.
In 1994, Dutch parliamentarian Boris Dittrich introduced the Netherlands' first queer mar