NAKED TRUTH

“Exposed” is a complicated word at the moment. Especially during Pride Month the word resonates with the trauma of past outbreaks but also with the stripped-down (and hopefully sun-screened) celebration of bodies that accompanies so many Pride parades and infuriates so many prudes. Now, Pride Month plans have been drastically affected, including this exhibition (intended for the Otis Street Arts Project in Mount Rainier, MD), which showcases five queer artists’ powerful renderings of the human form exposed, naked...