soccer stadium? And contains glory holes and photographs of unclothed men?!Now that we have your attention: the artist, JJ Guest, uses soccer’s homoerotic side to expose homophobic cultural attitudes.
The exhibit, appropriately called The Other Team, is located at Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium, and can only be accessed through the team’s official gift shop.
That’s on purpose. Guest wants visitors to feel challenged.“I’m not trying to get people’s backs up,” he told The Guardian. “I want people to know that if straight men found it easier to be tactile with their friends, it would make it safer for us as well, because we wouldn’t be scrutinised for doing it.
So the work is really for everyone.”One of the signature displays is a piece called Glory, which depicts one of the most iconic images in British sports history: all-time national team great Geoff Hurst winding up to kick the shot that propels England ahead in extra time of the 1966 World Cup Final.