My poor friend Charlotte had a lame day today helping shove religion down the throats of some irritating year 8s.
So I've painted her a nice picture
On a pigeon feather (I'm so unoriginal.)

This is a Cheval du Gay and some dogwood. Dogwood is really nice, but unfortunately they kind of suck in this picture :S well they ARE hard to paint when they're less than 1 cm square!

I know the horse isn't that good either, but hey.

Cheval du Gay...well it started when I did a pseudo art nouveau horse in my school diary. Lottie saw it, noticed the flowing mane and quickly pronounced it gay. I since did an art nouveau picture with a horse and the words "Cheval du gay" (horse of gay in poor french) over it.
So a Cheval du Gay is an overly feminine and gay horse. And I suppose it extends to an overly pretentious, flashy male.

PS - horses can actually be gay.
Here's some nice documentary evidence:
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This is on gay animals in general:
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and finally, a more cultural thing linking horses and homosexuality.
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