Question
David Wojnarowicz (“voy-nuh-ROH-vich”) painted his lover Peter Hujar dreaming of both this person and an author. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person whose gay artistic associations include a homoerotic biopic in Latin by Derek Jarman. After leaving Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde took a pseudonym referencing both this person and Melmoth the Wanderer.
ANSWER: Saint Sebastian [or Sebastianus; or Sebastiane] (Wilde’s adopted pseudonym was Sebastian Melmoth.)
[10m] Amid his obsession with the human body, this gay author posed as Saint Sebastian for a 1968 photo. The protagonist of a semi-autobiographical novel by this author has a sexual awakening while masturbating to Guido Reni’s painting of Saint Sebastian.
ANSWER: Yukio Mishima [or Kimitake Hiraoka; accept names in either order] (The novel is Confessions of a Mask.)
[10e] This gay artist showed Sebastian as a large red figure pierced by airplanes in a 1984 poster. This graffiti artist made the mural Crack Is Wack and popularized vibrant, monochrome human figures before dying of AIDS in 1990.
ANSWER: Keith Haring
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