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Gay Secrets of the Met - Fri May 18

  • Met Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue New York, NY, 10028 United States (map)

Gay Secrets of the Met

Fri May 18th at 6:15pm
Led by our favorite queer guide, Professor Andrew Lear
Time and Place: Meet and depart at 6:15, inside to the right of the main entrance (next to the statue of the Pharaoh)
Cost: $55 full price*; $49 seniors*; $35 Met members and students

Tickets: MetGaySecretsMay18.eventbrite.com

Join The Men Event for the most popular tour of the Met, led by one of the world authorities on Gay art. You will explore some of the Met's queer treasures, from ancient Greek nudes (and erotic vase-painting, on which Professor Lear is a world expert!) to homoerotic works from the Renaissance, and a panoply of modern works, some by LGBT artists, some portraying LGBT people, and some expressing same-sex desire. Famous artists and personalities, such as Caravaggio or Gertrude Stein, will appear-but so will lesser-known artists and works whose homoerotic charge is often ignored (including images used in homosexual initiation rites in New Guinea!). At the end of the tour, the group will head to one of the bars that is open for Met Fridays.

*NOTE: "Full Price" and "Senior" price include cost of admission to the museum as well as the tour. The $35 cost for Met members and students is for the tour only (please bring your member ID or student ID to gain entry to the museum). The tour is operated by Oscar Wilde Tours and is not officially an offering of the Met Musem. Price of admission does not include beverages. No refunds or exchanges