While we're on the subject of AIDS - always a good lede, huh? - you may recall our recent piece on AIDS Walk's new ad campaign. In that piece, we touched upon an artistic movement called social realism, which attempted to capture the lived experience of the masses.

During the movement's hey-day (the 1930s-1940s), the American government launched the Works Progress Administration. Later renamed the Works Project Administration, this New Deal institution enlisted the nation's artists to help spread the good governmental word.

Though most of the artists were straight, there's always one fag in the bunch and the WPA's fag went by the name of Paul Cadmus.

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