feature: art project/publication chicos explores being gay and black in brazil, with visual artist felipe da cunha

Check out the latest from gay art project/publication Chicos. In their new editorial, Chicos feature 23 year-old visual artist Felipe da Cunha from Belo Horizonte in Brazil; and explore what it’s like when you’re gay and Black “in a society that is still racist and homophobic”. See some extracts below and CLICK HERE to see more. Chicos is the brainchild of Fábio Lamounier and Rodrigo Ladeira, and (as they state) is “a perspective within the life of each gay character. Named after the Spanish term and also after so many unknown ‘Franciscos’ in the world, the project will be made of interviews + experimentations which are related to the personal and collective experience of what we truly are in a daily basis, of our bodies, our discoveries and opinions.” 

By Alexander Aplerku, AFROPUNK Contributor

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“When you’re black and gay, the barriers are higher. You have to deal with two already marginalized aspects, having to stand out when you need to prove something (…). This made me an incredibly competitive person, which is not 100% healthy”

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“Black men are seen as this one image: always sexually top, always big dicked, always muscular, always violent during sex. This is not true. When you’re gay and black, and don’t fit in none of these features, you get cast aside in your own midst. The hypersexualization occurs and sometimes is not even noted. It is important to realize that people are not objects. Sex is good, everybody likes it, but no one can be reduced to just sex”

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