{"id":28555,"date":"2025-06-16T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=28555"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:20:50","slug":"the-first-homosexuals-the-birth-of-a-new-identity-1869-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/the-first-homosexuals-the-birth-of-a-new-identity-1869-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAlice Austen, The Darned Club, 1891, original glass plate negative, 4×5 in Collection of Historic Richmond Town.<\/em><\/p>\n

The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939<\/em><\/a>
\nruns through July 26, 2025
\nat Wrightwood 659 in Chicago, USA<\/p>\n

The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939 explores a sea change in how society regarded homosexuality in the wake of the coining of the term \u201chomosexual\u201d in 1869. Before this watershed moment, same-sex desire marked something you did, not necessarily something you were. The First Homosexuals examines how, for the first time, homosexuals were cleaved from the rest of the population and given an identity which turned on their sexuality.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is unprecedented, with more than 300 works by more than 125 artists from 40 countries, on loan from over 100 museums and private collections across the world. Curated by Jonathan D. Katz and Johnny Willis.<\/p>\n

Related Link<\/h2>\n

\u2018The First Homosexuals\u2019 showcases 300 queer artworks amid \u2018rise of homophobic politics\u2019<\/a> by Courtney Kueppers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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