Courtesy of Schiller & Bodo European Paintings “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939,” an exhibit at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, is enormous and overwhelming ...

"This is an exhibit that at times challenges you, but that's what art is all about." The exhibit runs through July 26 at the gallery Wrightwood 659. A book on the exhibit will come out next month.

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

When did homosexuality become a fixed identity? At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning exhibition charts the period when “homosexuality” and ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939” is a major contribution to queer art history. Co-curated with Canadian nonbinary art historian Johnny Willis, the exhibit also has a companion catalog book.

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 ...

Is heterosexuality natural? In his 1995 book The Invention of Heterosexuality, sexuality scholar Jonathan Ned Katz established the idea of “heterosexual” as a historically recent concept.