About Homo Riot
Homo Riot was an artist and graffiti artist.
Homo Riot is an anonymous queer street artist based in Los Angeles, California specializing in spray paint art, stencil graffiti, sticker art, and wheat-paste murals. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 2000 He is a gallery artist, performance artist, muralist, photographer, collagist, sculptor, and street artist. He prefers to remain anonymous as a street artist. Homo Riot's public works often depict vintage gay pornography, images of people at pride parades, women and men wearing leather, drag performances, sexually explicit imagery, and more.
In June 2019, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisings of 1969, Homo Riot collaborated with queer street artist Suriani and photographer, film maker, and social activist The Dusty Rebel to create a mural depicting Marsha P. Johnson, a gay liberation activist and prominent figure in the Stonewall uprisings. The mural is located at 2nd Avenue and Houston Street in New York City and has been a target of vandalism. His public work depicted queer representation of BDSM subcultures such as the leather subculture.
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