On his IG live on 7.8.23, Liam said John Singer Sargent is his favorite artist. Sargent's sexuality is heavily debated; modern interpretations are that he was likely gay - at minimum, much more an admirer of the male figure than the female.
Sargent never married, was intensely private about his personal life. X He was a neighbor to Oscar Wilde and would have been very aware of his trial.
Sargent's paintings are often considered homoerotic or "remarking on the fluidity of human sexuality."
Many of his works are sensual portraits of well-built men in generally feminine poses - arched backs, heads thrown back in passion, etc.
His muse was Thomas Eugene McKellar, a Black bellhop at a posh Boston hotel. Every figure - both women and men - in Sargent's mural at the Boston Museum of Fine Art's rotunda - is McKellar's face - though with his race obscured, and who was paid only a small amount.
He also created many other images of McKellar, one of which he exhibited in his studio his entire life but never showed in an exhibit.
McKellar's family have said they suspected he was gay, and that's why he moved away to Boston.
Some of Sargent's contemporaries remarked about him having many trysts with men when he traveled to Venice and Paris, with a preference for men with darker hair and skin.
Andy Warhol named Sargent as one of his inspirations. Sargent's mural of Hell for the Boston Public Library is thought of as some of his least sensual work - yet when Warhol first saw it, he referred to it as a "gang bang."
On his IG live Liam also read a username that referred to Timothee Chalamet, and before answering the question, he remarked on his attractiveness, twice.
A few days earlier, Liam posted two photos on Instagram of him meeting British artist David Hockney who he called his "inspiration and idol." Hockney is LGBTQ and is known for his intimate portraits of gay domesticity:
Here is a video of Hockney talking about Harry asking to be painted by him and someone please link the masterpost about Harry queer coding through talking about Hockney.
I'd say Lima mildly flirted with Mark Wahlberg in his thirst trap IG photo comments also x
Louis: Basically the story was…there was a cow. It was making a noise like cows do…
Louis & Niall: Moooooooooo!
Zayn: It sounded like a person!
Louis: Liam being the heroic man that he is and was, decided he would go out there and try to save this “man,” which in fact was a cow. He hopped over the gate to this field and looked around and shouted, “Hello?! Hello?! Does anyone need any help?”
Zayn: I got a stick, wrapped a cloth around it and lit it on fire and went out. I thought I was Indiana Jones running after Liam with it.
Harry: It was like completely dark and Liam was stood on the fence going, “Is anybody out there?! Is anybody out there?!”
Niall: So Liam was going to take on some murderer down in the field and a horse comes running at me in the dark.
Louis: So then we all went back in, sat around the fire for a little bit and then decided to go to sleep. But in fact, quite embarrassingly, even though we were 99% sure it was a cow we didn’t really dare sleep in our own beds. We actually had to sleep on mattresses on the floor next to each other because we had no key for the door and we thought the cow/man [would come in and murder us]. (x)
“It’s nothing to do with my own personal gain because if they even nominated me at this stage, I wouldn’t even go and accept the award because it doesn’t mean anything to me. The entire organization doesn’t represent anything and I don’t believe they showcase the best talent in the industry, I believe that they control what they want to control.”
— Zayn on his tweets about the Grammys for Debatable.
Liam is posting to his ig stories but they are including the stunt beard so I don’t feel like contributing to that nonsense.
Instead of releasing music, management has him doing stupid shit being trailed around by the woman. 🥴
For once I want to be able to check his ig stories and it be about him and his music. He does try to post him singing but then it also includes showing the airhead woman. Blaaahhhhhh #FreeLiam
Where’s that fucking sister song to “Sunshine” you did with Jonas Blue, for instance?!?!?!?
Things with Liam are so messy lately. He’s taken up partying and having to show the new beard in his ig stories. He’s been posting ig stories where he is singing with his golden voice to cope so there’s that.