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In the 1980s, Rotimi Fani-Kayode created The Golden Phallus - a provocative photo essay that challenged centuries of racist fear around Black male sexuality.

He painted fellow photographer Robert Taylor’s body gold and photographed him in a series that was simultaneously a political protest, queer celebration, and pure camp.

Robert Taylor, Fani-Kayode’s collaborator and model, reflects on the radical artist who died of AIDS in 1989 at just 34. This wasn’t just art - it was a middle finger to respectability, to colonialism, and to shame.

Fani-Kayode’s work remains urgent today. His images confronted the hyper-sexualisation and simultaneous erasure of Black queer bodies, using humour and beauty as weapons.

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