The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life

The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life

CHICAGO — The history of art, stated curator Jonathan D. Katz, “is both the world’s largest archive of the history of sexuality and its least tapped.” This may be a good place to begin to unpack the immense, important, ambitious, challenging, and intellectual exhibition The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869–1939 at Wrightwood 659.  The exhibition is dissertation length, with 300 works by 125 artists from 40 countries. It begins…

The First Homosexuals: How Art Revealed a New Queer Identity

A groundbreaking exhibit at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 uncovers how visual art helped shape global queer identity between 1869 and 1939. The post The First Homosexuals: How Art Revealed a New Queer Identity appeared first on Metro Weekly.

MCA after-hours party back with a queer club takeover

The windows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., glowed a bright purple late into the evening of July 18. Hundreds of people waited in a line that wrapped around the block to get into Prime Time, an after-hours party hosted by the museum.   Prime Time began 10 years ago, but with this party, it returned to the MCA for the first time since the pandemic began. The event is usually in response to an ongoing exhibition at the muse…