According to a post on Isrealli.org:

Madrid Orgullo (Madrid Pride) is the biggest gay pride parade in Spain and one of the largest in Europe.  -  The Israeli Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Association is hoping their participation in the Madrid Orgullo festival will help market Tel Aviv as a hot destination for gay tourists.

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The campaign has a reason: to remember the need to continue using a condom during sexual risk before the alarm triggered by the negative statistics about the increased transmission of HIV and the finding of lack of risk perception among young people
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The campaign acts on 2 very different channels: the distribution of free condoms at the individual level in different places of entertainment of the community and the collective level implicative a viral video that highlights the sense of community and reinforce the collective commitment of the same.

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Artists: Sergio Cattivelli, Roberto Delgado, Violeta Gomez, Antonio J., Invernot, Sebas Martín, David Mirás, Sandra Mondon, Elena Montull, Nazario, Ocaña, Olgaz, Daniel Torrent, Sandra Turnbull, y MR. WOOLMAN.

Private View: Thursday 7th of May from 7.30pm

We will count with artists, Dj Lapablo, performance and projection of Lechifla (designers of the image of BAG’09), service of catering by Ago Catering and wine by Vino Gay.

And the party continues from 11.30pm at Lotus Theater.

Parallel activities:
- ‘Kink: The freedom of the selfedition’. Conference by of PacoyManolo. Thursday 14th, 19h.
- ‘Remembering Robert Mapplethorpe’. Workshop of photography with model. Saturday 16th, 10-14h.
- ‘Mythology and Art: the secrets of Dionise’. Workshop of tasting of wines. Thursday 21, 19.30 h.
- ‘Gaycelona: from the persecution to the integration’. Route for the history and culture of the
Gay Barcelona. Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd of May to the 18h.
- Workshops Bondage in charge of Neo-Cortex BDSM.

Closure: Thursday 28th of May from 7.30pm. Wine by Louis de Vernier.

Performance by Thomas Reydellet and Presentation of collection of leather by ATELIERFER.
[Barcelona Art Gay]
Group Show of Gay Erotic Art
7th to 29th of May 2009
Opening: Thursday 7th of May from 7.30pm

BAG’09 sights to the contemporary art from the re-assertion of an identity LGTB (lesbian, gay, transsexual and bisexual). The elaboration of esthetic proposals that inquire in the universe that forms the plural and different identity built by this group to fight the discrimination, the prejudice and the
estigmatización accessing to their visibility with the intention of creating interesting subjects of analysis and debate in our society. The ‘Gay Art’ nowadays it is very much present in the international artistic panorama, it is already in magazines of trends, fashion and design, in the most in galleries of London, New York or Tokyo or in Art Fairs like Arco, Basel, Frieze or Miami.

Homoerotic art is usually the one created for and for the homosexual community. The subjects of this type of art go from the sensuality of the naked one up to the relationships psico-affective and erotic among people of the same sex. This demonstration is generally explicit, but not pornographic, although
it is difficult to draw an unmistakable border among erotism and pornography, since there will always be different interpretations and criteria; however when to talk of homoerotism we base in the emotional part associated with the erotism, which the sexual desire looks for waking up and at the same time
converts an explicit description in a little romantic, many times deepening more in the feelings than in the details specific to the act.

The homosexuality has been present in all the art history. This artistic gender has one of its bases in the ancestral cultures; these cultures dedicated part of their artistic expressions to the phallic cult, as developer of the fertility, but also as symbol of the virility and of the transmission of the force among
the warriors of a clan or tribe. It does not have to be forgotten that other cultures, besides the occidental one, also have clear examples of this subject, from the Indian to the Japanese.

The Greek art contains explicit references to this type of images with men, generally older, that they transmit its wisdom and its physical power to their students. In the Roman art the different representations of Zeus can stand out kidnapping and raping the beautiful Trojan prince Ganímides. In
the medieval period we have martyrs as San Sebastian, penetrated by arrows (phallic symbols) with expressions of pain and pleasure at the same time. In the Renaissance painters as Botticelli or Leonardo da Vinci and in the Baroque with Caravaggio usually present us secret codes in works of art that only
certain people understand.

Some artists of the 20th century and 21st to stand out for their contribution are Paul Cadmus, Gilbert & George, Tom of Finland, David Hockney, Will McBride, Robert Mapplethorpe, Pierre et Gilles. As example of feminine homoerotism we can quote Frida Kahlo, Gustav Klimt and Gustave Courbet.

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“We are fags!” they say. Queer as folk to bring us concepts formed around homosexuality and electro music. In a time when almost everything is revealed about gay issues all they want is to show how honest and real is their message and music. They are a team, not only share music if not love and it works out very well. Also they share the attraction about nasty things so if you didn’t notice they are naughty guys. It was not a surprise why decided to call to their group QUEER CUM.

Their first records were in English so it was easier to find an English name. “Dad, I like QUEER CUM”, “Come on boy, are you teasing me?” Don’t be shy buddies we need to speak out so let’s tell parents what we really like. Before to start together as a music group Franky was part of a Spanish band called Putilátex and Rob was working as a DJ under the name Rob Seol, they were not together as boyfriends but it didn’t take so long to fall in love each other.

Everybody has a coming out but in the case of them “Coming out of the closet, we? We are official faggots from the beginning of the time. Roberto and I are very proud of it!”And Rob worked in many gay Chilean parades. “I never came out, It was always assumed…it was not a problem.” says Rob. For Latex “I came out for the front door holding hands with the guy I want to love and my family, very soon got used to it.  Soon, I will get married to Roberto and my family is happy.”

There is not doubt that we are living better times, we still need to do a lot but something is changing and young people as Rob and Franky are making it possible. As Latex says there are a lot of gays in Spain and maybe he is exaggerating when affirms that gay even under the stones but for him being gay is like an involution because he is a renegade of the fashion gay style and he feels that is a very ridiculous stereotype. “I can understand that people like smooth guys and they dress Calvin Klein undies and they got the bulge, but I like a guy that stinks and is unshaved and that dresses in any clothes and don’t care about it. I like real guys someone that you can meet when you’re going to the market. I need to make clear that I don’t fight against the gay fashion world, but I don’t share it.”

QUEERCUM doesn’t like to follow other rules, they make their own. Diversity is good and they know it because without some would not exist others. “We are not dirty, we only try to show some twisted image, but those that piss on are the ones dressing a suit and a tie, I only like my boyfriend’s cum and that’s all.” They think and feel they don’t need to follow things as the gay rainbow because they were created for other society. They love electro music and queercore is a version punk born from the queer ideology. “There are a lot of groups that belong to that movement and it was easy for us to move into it, but you know almost all the electric music talks about sex…something that we love. “

Placebo, Limp Bizkit, Physic TV and Judas Priest are their influences, bands related to break models and stereotypes and also involved with sexual ambiguity. QUEERCUM is part of the underground scene and they are not looking a specific market to see their music, could be unusual but they prefer to like to heterosexual people that gay people. “We don’t think that it sells too much being gay if not to be original. We are queer group that make music for hetero, what people don’t want to look at is 2 homos that are not the queer cliché and besides they don’t feel proud to be it.”

QUEERCUM uses explicit language as revealed in promotional photos on their myspace page.  One reason why the popular networking shut down their profile. So they got censured because of their photos, but they got over it. “At the beginning people thought we were inviting them to publish cum facial photos, but we were not looking for that at all.”

Latex appreciates the freedom they have in Spain and he feels proud to be gay and be Spanish as well, but Rob is an activist against discrimination…no matter what sexual orientation you are.  He participated in 2 gay Chilean parades, and remembers the first one where they were 10,000 people in front of the Government Palace and the second with 25,000. “It was a huge crowd and it worked out because Chile got a Socialist Government and that is good. We saw a lot of reds, Red Chilean people.”

Franky and Rob are satisfied, they can be outspoken dirty boys but honest as hell and funny too. They are a pair of real guys that feel the same attraction for music and passion for their goals “I sleep very well after so many years and it is a pleasure to have Rob in my bed.“, says Latex staring and smiling at Rob and Rob agrees “The best thing about having a partner is to grow up day by day and to have the security that being with someone gives you…plus we get to fuck to fuck to fuck and eat cum.”

They are looking forward to performing live and making contacts to get new contracts and appear in more concerts. I know, sometimes I can be real naughty, but that can make us feel good. What do you think?

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