Hyperallergic’s Claire Breukel:

“Dub poet Mutabaruka found it necessary to argue, in a public contribution on the subject, that the statue [Emancipation Monument], which represents a woman and a man, both nude standing in a pool of water and looking upward as a symbolic representation of the spiritual emancipation from Slavery, was ‘gay’ because the male figure did not respond sexually to the presence of the naked female figure.” explains Veerle Poupeye, Director of the National Gallery of Jamaica.

Picasso:

“And then too, I said to myself, why not a Stalin in heroic nudity? … Yes, but, Stalin nude, and what about his virility? … If you take the pecker of the classical sculptor … So small … But, come on, Stalin, he was a true male, a bull. So then, if you give him the phallus of a bull, and you’ve got this little Stalin behind his big thing they’ll cry: But you’ve made him into a sex maniac! A satyr! Then if you are a true realist you take your tape measure and you measure it all properly. That’s worse, you made Stalin into an ordinary man. And then, as you are ready to sacrifice yourself, you make a plaster cast of your own thing. Well, it’s even worse. What, you dare take yourself for Stalin! … After all, Stalin, he must have had an erection all the time, just like the Greek statues. … Tell me, you who knows, Socialist Realism, is that Stalin with an erection or without an erection?”