The First Homosexuals

A groundbreaking, global survey ofqueer art, featuringmore than 300 artworks madefollowing the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in1869An unprecedented and historic new book,The First Homosexualstraces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive ofmore than 300paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and film stills from around the world–many presented in a queer, global, and colonialcontext for the first time. Accompanying the works are twenty-two original, insightful essays by leading experts in art and queer history, each focusing on one geographical region–from Japan to Australia to the Indigenous populations ofSouthAmerica.Ranging from well-known masterpieces to works by unknown artists and pieces rarely considered in the context of sexuality,The First Homosexualsoffers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies agroundbreaking exhibition of the same namepresentedat Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.Featured artists includeHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent,Félix Vallotton,Harriet Hosmer,Katsushika Hokusai,Kitagawa Utamaro,Frederic Leighton,Simeon Solomon,Giovanni Boldini,Jacques-Émile Blanche,Berenice Abbott,Clare Atwood,Duncan Grant,Laura Rodig,Carl van Vechten,Beauford Delaney,Anna Klumpke,Sarah Bernhardt,Walter Sickert,Florence Carlyle,Florence Wyle,Frances Loring,Ottilie Roederstein,Florine StettheimerNasta Rojc,Glyn Philpot,Romaine Brooks,Ismael Nery,Manuel Rodríguez Lozano,Roberto Montenegro,María Izquierdo,Emilio Baz Viaud,Konstantin Somov,Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret,Alice Austen,Emilie Mundt,Bertha Wegmann,Thomas Anshutz,Marsden Hartley,Charles Demuth,Marie Laurencin,Gerda Wegener,Lili Elbe,Gregorio Prieto,Jorge Larco,Pavel Tchelitchew,Andrey Avinoff,Gustave Courtois,Carlos Baca-Flor,Gustave Moreau,Henry Scott Tuke,Sascha Schneider,Ludwig von Hofmann,Max Oppenheimer,Eugene Jansson,Osmar Schindler,George Platt Lynes,Agnes Goodsir,Tamara de Lempicka,Pedro Lira,Wilhelm von Gloeden,Ladislav Mednyánszky,F. Holland Day,Kristian Zahrtmann,Violet Oakley,Rupert Bunny,Saturnino Herrán,David Paynter,Lionel Wendt,Richmond Barthé,Richard Bruce Nugent,Lady Una Troubridge,Jean Cocteau,Léon Bakst,Lumiere Brothers,Marie Höeg & Bolette Berg,José Guadalupe Posada,Claude Cahun,Toyen,Toni Ebel, andElisar von Kupffer (Elisarion).