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It's safe to assume Jon was his last relationship, and as some say, his greatest love.
The Andy Warhol Diaries is currently streaming on Netflix.
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Jed ended up helping Andy around his house, doing little chores here and there. Our guide takes you behind the scenes at The Warhol with exclusive multimedia perspectives from artists, curators, and more.
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Who were Andy Warhol's boyfriends? “At the same time, he didn’t do anything to convince the world he was straight, which set him apart from other gay figures of the era,” including fellow American painters Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
In some cases, artists seemingly picked on Warhol to insulate themselves from similar attacks. The Factory was a safe space for the whole queer avant-garde of New York.
Instead many falsely assumed that Edie Sedgwick, a Warhol Superstar who appeared in his films, was his girlfriend.
While Warhol was not outwardly political, he made a point of creating opportunities for gay youth in the art world.
“He wasn’t marching in the streets,” says Marston, who helped develop the museum’s monthly Dandy Andy: Warhol’s Queer History tour.
He also did that with an 807-page memoir published posthumously, comprised of diary entries he dictated to his friend Pat Hackett from November 1976 until his death in February 1987. Sadly, Jon never saw these paintings.
"I love going out with Jon because it’s like being on a real date,” Andy said of their time together. Unfortunately Andy's penchant for partying drove a wedge between him and Jay. In December 1980, they parted ways.
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At this point, Andy met 26 year-old Paramount executive Jon Gould, who was also a twin.
"He’s tall and strong and I feel like he can take care of me."
Regrettably, as Andy's own health scare brought him closer to Jed in his previous relationship, it would be Jon's failing health that would end their love story.
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What was happening primarily in the gay community, and to Jon in particular, informed Andy's art at this time.
Here's what we know.
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Who were Andy Warhol's boyfriends?
Netflix's The Andy Warhol Diaries are the result of a decade-long look into the often misunderstood artist's life by Andrew Rossi, who, in an interview with Variety, traced his interest back to the fact that he is bisexual.
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Less than a year later, Andy would die of cardiac arrhythmia after gallbladder surgery. He was fresh-faced and still reeling from the differences between the big city and Sacramento, Calif., where he was from. Reviewers criticized the drawings for their “doubtful taste” and “private meaning,” and referred to them as “highly sensitive.”Today, The Warhol celebrates not only its namesake’s artwork—all of it—but also his role as a gay icon.
He began a series of works based on Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," with references to the AIDS crisis and even Jon himself. Never mind that he got pushback from a society where homosexuality was criminalized in most states and a major social taboo.
“It was a different time, so he didn’t hold a press conference and come out to the world,” says Grace Marston, a gallery educator at The Andy Warhol Museum.
Jon was tall, blonde, and well-built, easily passing for a college quarterback or similar. Upon completion, the visitor’s screen test is transformed digitally from real time to slow motion and pushed to the Internet, where it will be available on a custom webpage.
DIY Warhol
This interactive web-based experience guides users step-by-step through cropping, exposing, underpainting and virtually pulling a silkscreen to achieve a Warhol-esque Pop Art aesthetic.
His 1956 Studies for a Boy Book was shown at the Bodley Gallery in New York. Today, the riots are credited with sparking the modern gay rights movement.
In partnership with Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival, The Warhol will screen the documentary Before Stonewall, followed by a Q&A session with co-director and producer Robert Rosenberg and a late-night dance party with Jellyfish, a trio of local DJs.
The next day, the museum will host a gender-inclusive celebration for families featuring drag queen story time with Akasha L Van-Cartier, short films for kids presented by Fairy Fantastic, the Dreams of Hope queer youth arts showcase, and more.
For Warhol, his art and his love life were often intertwined.