{"id":29118,"date":"2025-11-02T11:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=29118"},"modified":"2025-11-02T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:45:52","slug":"author-talk-the-first-homosexuals-at-leslie-lohman-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/author-talk-the-first-homosexuals-at-leslie-lohman-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"AUTHOR TALK: THE FIRST HOMOSEXUALS at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AUTHOR TALK: THE FIRST HOMOSEXUALS
\nTuesday, November 18, 6 – 8pm
\nat Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York
\nNB! This program has reached capacity.<\/p>\n

Jonathan David Katz, Associate Professor of Practice in the History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women\u2019s 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 \u201chomosexual\u201d in 1869. The talk will be followed by a public Q&A and book signing, with the publication available for purchase.<\/p>\n

The Book<\/h2>\n

The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939
\nby Jonathan D. Katz (Author)
\nHardcover \u2013 July 16, 2025
\nPublisher: \u200eThe Monacelli Press
\nLanguage: \u200e English
\nPrint length: \u200e 368 pages
\nISBN-10: \u200e 1580936938
\nISBN-13: \u200e 978-1580936934
\nItem Weight: \u200e 6.34 pounds
\nDimensions: \u200e 10.31 x 1.46 x 12.28 inches<\/p>\n

The First Homosexuals offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition<\/a> of the same name presented at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.<\/p>\n

Featured artists include Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, F\u00e9lix Vallotton, Harriet Hosmer, Katsushika Hokusai, Kitagawa Utamaro, Frederic Leighton, Simeon Solomon, Giovanni Boldini, Jacques-\u00c9mile 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 Rodr\u00edguez Lozano, Roberto Montenegro, Mar\u00eda 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, Eug\u00e8ne Jansson, Osmar Schindler, George Platt Lynes, Agnes Goodsir, Tamara de Lempicka, Pedro Lira, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Ladislav Medny\u00e1nszky, F. Holland Day, Kristian Zahrtmann, Violet Oakley, Rupert Bunny, Saturnino Herr\u00e1n, David Paynter, Lionel Wendt, Richmond Barth\u00e9, Richard Bruce Nugent, Lady Una Troubridge, Jean Cocteau, L\u00e9on Bakst, Lumi\u00e8re Brothers, Marie H\u00f6eg & Bolette Berg, Jos\u00e9 Guadalupe Posada, Claude Cahun, Toyen, Toni Ebel, and Elis\u00e0r von Kupffer (Elisarion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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