Same-sex love is a more or less overt theme for Mr. Indiana throughout.
Five years later, in 1886, a sea rescue would be the overt theme of the monumental oil painting "Undertow," in which the bodies of two unconscious women, locked in an embrace, are being pulled from crashing surf by a pair of muscular men, one of whom looks away, as if he couldn't bear the sight.
In high school I never read a work of literature with an overt LGBTQ theme or issue.
A more probable culprit, then, was the ballet's nudity and overt theme of homosexual love.
The 1960s slogan "Make love, not war" became the overt theme of his "Romeo and Juliet".
Can he winkle juicy intel out of her? It's another neat story, perhaps too tidily crafted, with the overt theme that people employed to pre-empt the enemy can't predict what those closest to them will do next.
The book, in fact, takes as its overt theme what has been the ever more insistent subtext of Carson's prior writing -- the "dilemma of desire" and the ways in which intellectual discernment (a familiarity, say, with "the passive periphrastic" tenses in Latin) and erotic taste often pull in opposite directions.
The artist, of course, recently performed her new track at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show; continuing her overt themes of celebration and empowerment with backing dancers clad in leather body suits and black berets referencing the Black Panthers movement of the '60s.
Producer Pauline Schantzer recognizes that the play still holds resonance with its overt themes of sexuality and racism 48 years after it first debuted in New York and adds that she doesn't have a problem making people uncomfortable.
