![]() The book tells the story of two teenage boys from opposing religious backgrounds, growing up, falling in love, and being torn apart on a sectarian, hyper-masculine Glasgow council estate. efUXP0Lng6- Douglas Stuart December 1, 2021 It was both the photograph itself and these responses to it that led to it being used on the cover of Young Mungo (designed by Stuart Wilson at Picador) , the second novel from Booker Prize-winning author Douglas Stuart.īeyond chuffed to finally reveal the UK cover of YOUNG MUNGO! Thank you to the incredible artist #wolfgangtillmans for allowing me to use his iconic photograph - I am humbled by his generosity. Ten years later, when the father of the man responsible for the mass murder of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Florida said that his son had been enraged by the sight of two men kissing, thousands of people responded by posting images of just that on social media, with The Cock (Kiss) one of the most popular shared. In 2006 it was slashed with a key when on display in Washington DC. Over the twenty-plus years since it was taken, the photograph (called The Cock (Kiss)) has survived a homophobic attack and been used as a symbol of defiance and celebration by the LGBTQIA+ community. It’s passionate, authentic full of spontaneity and desire. ![]() It’s an immediate, intimate image, not – or not only – because it’s a kiss, but because of the details. In 2002, Turner Prize-winning photographer Wolfgang Tillmans took a photograph of two men kissing in London club The Ghetto’s gay night, The Cock. ![]()
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