The Gates Gaytz

February 25, 2005
JONNOBOT

We were wondering whether or not any Christo-inspired porn was going to turn up before "The Gates" comes down this weekend: "This 23 mile long orange hanky in the back pocket of New York City announces to all the universe that Central Park is once again the place for 'anything anytime'." We're grateful to this anonymous Craigslist poster for finally explaining the elusive "meaning" of the piece, though we're still confused why the installation creates a huge, gaping hole around The Ramble when viewed from above. Er, on second thought ...

th'Gaytz - 23 (newyork.craigslist.org)
See also: Fetish Club Hanky Code (sexuality.org; orange is indeed the color for "anything goes"—though there's no listing for saffron)

Update Some cranky non-art appreciating members of the Craigslist community seem to have banded together and had the post deleted. Good thing we saved a copy for posterity—after all, "The Gates" may be ephemeral, but hot gay sex in Central Park is forever!

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th'Gaytz - 23
Reply to: anon-61180***@craigslist.org
Date: 2005-02-24, 5:27PM EST

I highly urge you all to go see Christo and Jean-Claude's phenomenal artistic celebration of gay sex in public parks before it is dismantled and sent away to the landfill.

This 23 mile long orange hanky in the back pocket of New York City announces to all the universe that Central Park is once again the place for "anything anytime".

After spending the AIDS era of the 80's and 90's wrapping public monuments in fabric prophylactics, Christo and Jean-Claude are bringing back the reckless spirit of the 70's in full-force.

This is just the first gesture towards making New York City the public sex and art capital of America. Already Rachel Whiteread has relocated to a studio in DUMBO and begun casting the negative space of urinals in Manhattan's most notorious tearooms. And it shouldn't be long before Anish Kapoor follows with a giant mirrored buttplug-shaped monument on the corner of 53rd and Third.

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