'Hot enough?' is a new series of sketches I have been working on in the past month in which I tried to visualize experiences encountered in Amsterdam's gay nightlife.

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In recent years, things happened... and that has caused changes we haven't yet fully comprehended or learned to deal with. Meanwhile minorities are absent or have seemingly blended into other cultures, leaving many questions unanswered. Hypes, hearsay, disagreements and blabbering have at times taken over the discourse, while the standard and expectations of sex have surpassed pornography in a time when sex, youth and beauty can be exploited. This has alienated what is left of the gay community from people with more conservative lifestyles and created a backlash within the community as well. Tendentious words and biased opinions can feel like terror, whilst many men in the gay community have experienced problems with their health and identity that according to some is caused by their own hedonistic lifestyle choices. But then everyone appears to be happy, right? But that might be because they may have forgotten how it used to be. 

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