AUTHOR TALK: THE FIRST HOMOSEXUALS at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
AUTHOR TALK: THE FIRST HOMOSEXUALS
Tuesday, November 18, 6 – 8pm
at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York
NB! This program has reached capacity.
Jonathan David Katz, Associate Professor of Practice in the History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a presentation with co-curator Johnny Willis on The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939, the groundbreaking, global survey of queer art including more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term “homosexual” in 1869. The talk will be followed by a public Q&A and book signing, with the publication available for purchase.
The Book
The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939
by Jonathan D. Katz (Author)
Hardcover – July 16, 2025
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Language: English
Print length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1580936938
ISBN-13: 978-1580936934
Item Weight: 6.34 pounds
Dimensions: 10.31 x 1.46 x 12.28 inches
The First Homosexuals offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name presented at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.
Featured artists include Henri 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 Stettheimer, Nasta 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, Eugène 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, Lumière Brothers, Marie Höeg & Bolette Berg, José Guadalupe Posada, Claude Cahun, Toyen, Toni Ebel, and Elisàr von Kupffer (Elisarion).