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

Here’s the third installment in our Pride 2025 books round-up, with a fascinating collective of books on queer history and ...

Trailblazing photographer Alice Austen's archive of more than 7,500 photographs returns to her ancestral home in New York.

One of the world’s most talked-about art exhibitions is drawing crowds — and selling out repeatedly — at a quiet gallery tucked inside a Lincoln Park block.

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.

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

Wrightwood 659’s ability to land an exhibition like “The First Homosexuals” is in part due to its controversial subject matter. “Queer art is the third rail of the art realm,” Katz tells ...

The exhibition, titled The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939, is currently on view at the Wrightwood 659 museum in Chicago through July 26. It’s the first time that the ...

“The First Homosexuals” is a greatly expanded version of a 2022 show that now takes up all three floors of the Lincoln Park exhibition space Wrightwood 659. So far, Chicago is the lone city to host ...

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 ...