At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” ...

A new exhibit at Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park called "The First Homosexuals" explores LGBTQ history and identity through art and expression.

But what the Wrightwood 659 exhibit demonstrates is that even as terms became more fixed and less flexible, queer sexual expression took on a dizzying range of forms, expressions and contexts.

In a cultural moment marked by censorship and retrenchment, Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 presents a bold counternarrative: The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939.Spanning ...

Wrightwood 659 is owned by Fred Eychaner, a prominent Democratic donor, philanthropist and arts steward. No matter the political winds of the moment, that independent ownership model — and the ...

At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” was a new concept.

A new exhibit at Wrightwood 659 in Lincoln Park called "The First Homosexuals" explores LGBTQ history and identity through art and expression.

At Wrightwood 659, the show hangs a 1935 work by David Paynter, a Sinhalese-British artist, of two young nude men on the beach, redolent of Gauguin’s works but seen as a “sardonic” take on ...