MOVIE • 2004

The Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe

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Delmas Howe is an artist who was born in the colorfully named town of Truth or Consequences, NM, once a wide-open sin city favored by cowboys on the trail and now home to a community of stubborn individualists. While Howe first made his name with classical depictions of life in the American West, after he came out as a gay man, he began a series of paintings which focused on images of the male form. Howe returned to his home town to show "Stations: A Gay Passion," a collection of paintings that blended biblical images with depictions of homosexual eroticism, at a local museum. As might have been expected, the exhibit was the subject of protests from the Christian Evangelical community, and The Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe is a documentary which explores Howe's life, his work, and the controversy it has generated.