Gay love at the Republican National Convention?

Creative Time, a New York-based nonprofit that specializes in funding public art, will host a gay and lesbian-themed demonstration at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, the Colorado Independent reports.

A similar event will be held in Denver for the Democratic National Convention.

For the event, artist Sharon Hayes will recruit between 75 and 100 volunteers from St. Paul to read "Revolutionary Love 2: I am your best fantasy." The 10 to 20 minute texts will be read continuously over a period of 2 hours. The event will be in conjunction with the Walker Art Center and the UnConvention.

The demonstration’s mission is "to take back the queer agenda and forefront the personal in these fortresses of the political."

Hayes’ demonstration will incorporate war messaging as part of the critique of the Republican National Convention. According to a press release by Creative Time (PDF): "Specifically, Hayes is interested in the militaristic aspect of groups that operated at the beginning of the gay rights movement, many of whom assumed aggressive, reactionary stances to culture at large. Where the classic slogan says, ‘Make love not war,’ Hayes references the Stonewall-era Gay Liberation movement and their chant, ‘An army of lovers cannot lose.’"