Pro-Donald Trump Art Show Will Open in Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN — A pro-Donald Trump photography exhibit entitled "#DaddyWillSaveUs," comes to North Williamsburg this Saturday, featuring contributions from Milo Yiannopoulos, Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes and "pharma-bro" Martin Shkreli.

The exhibit opens Saturday, Oct. 8, at 8 p.m., at 191 N 14 St., and will remain open to the public from Oct. 10 to Oct. 13.

While both the LGBT and artist communities have rallied behind the Democratic Party in recent presidential elections, the organizer, Lucian Wintrich, a gay conservative artist, feels that the left is suppressing his and other gay conservatives' freedom of speech.

“I think this exhibition will fight the dogma of a single accepted political ideology among artists and the creative class as a whole,” Wintrich said in a statement on the events' Facebook page.

"We are at a unique point in American history where conservatives are a part of the arts, part of culture, and progressive puritans are trying to shut us down; they're getting us fired; they're getting us banned from social media...what we need to do now is we need to invade the art world," Wintrich said in a video posted to his indegogo site.

Wintrich drew attention to himself earlier this year when he posted a series of erotic photos of shirtless male subjects sporting "Make America Great Again" hats. The photo series "Twinks4Trump" prompted an outcry from those who felt that Wintrich was misrepresenting the gay community and resulted in Wintrich getting fired from his job at an NYC-based advertising firm after the business received complaints.

The photo exhibit in Williamsburg will also support a charitable cause: Wintrich is committing 30 percent of proceeds towards American Military Partner Association, which is a non-profit organization supporting the "partners, spouses, and families of America's LGBT service members."

Lead image courtesy of Robert Ashworth/Flickr