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LiberalElite

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Sat Mar 7, 2015, 10:54 AM Mar 2015

Inside the Met's Secret Gay Art Collection

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/05/inside-the-met-s-secret-gay-art-collection.html

"If there was any doubt that New Yorkers would flock to make a homoerotic lap around one of the world’s preeminent art institutions, it was swiftly quashed by an overeager crowd of Ivy Leaguers.

In mid-February, art historian and professor Andrew Lear hosted a preview of an upcoming gay-themed tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Princeton-hosted Ivy Alumni group. When double the number of visitors that could comfortably navigate the halls showed up, he had to split the visit into two tours."
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