The Queer Cultural Endowment: A Timeline
VtNM Administration
History
It is, of course, impossible to create a truly
comprehensive list of our artist ancestors. We can
never know all the names of people who labored
anonymously in ancient courts and over the centuries
in cathedrals and town halls, in palaces and pavilions
— but we can be sure, given the very nature of art,
that vast numbers of them were what we now call "gay."
This list constitutes a small but heartfelt act of
gratitude and homage for what they did and what they
have given us.
— Charles Leslie
The following timeline is a record of the history and
influence of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered
artists upon the world at large. It is a simple yet
powerful list testifing to our existance. A few
literary figures, composers, dancers and events are
interspersed for continuity but this is mainly a list
of visual artists.
The list is in order by date of birth. Please note
that every name on this list is not necessarily gay
but may be included as a timeline marker.
(This list is compiled and maintained by Wayne
Snellen. Special thanks to Tee A. Corinne for sharing
her list of lesbian artists with LLGAF and for her
continuing support of this project. Also to Charles
Leslie who has made many helpful suggestion.)
Period/Movement Date(s) Event/Person
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Ancient
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30,000 B.C.E.
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Cave paintings at Lascaux, Venus of Willendorf and
those ithyphallic figures
4,000 B.C.E. Sumerian writing appears
3,000 B.C.E. Copper in wide use in Egypt & Near
East
2900 - 2700 B.C.E. Great Pyramids & Great Sphinx at
Giza
2700 B.C.E. Gilgamesh (Gilgamesh & Enkidu recorded
c. 628 B.C.E.). In this legendary friendship many
scholars see a homosexual subtext.
2460 B.C.E. Niankhkhnum & Khnumhotep (two Egyptian
lovers or brothers buried together)
2000 B.C.E. Bronze Age in Europe
1500 B.C.E. Stonehenge constructed in England
1390 - 1330 B.C.E. Alabaster statue of Pharaoh
Akhenaten (18th Dynasty) and Prince Smenkhcara. NOTE:
Akhenaten, also called Nefer-Kheperu-Ra and husband of
Queen Nefertiti commanded an unknown court sculptor to
style Smenkhcara as "The Beloved of Akhnaten" and to
render them in alabaster in a conjunction that is
considerably more than fraternal and was indeed a
jutaposition that was reserved for images of a husband
and wife.
1000 B.C.E. David, King of Israel (Some scholars
see a homosexual subtext in the friendship between
David & Jonathan, Ruth & Naomi, and, indeed, even
between Jesus and John)
950 B.C.E. Solomon's Temple built in Jerusalem
800 B.C.E. Homeric epics Iliad & Odyssey recorded
in Greece
776 B.C.E. Olympic Games in Greece founded
753 B.C.E. Rome founded by Romulus
612 - ? B.C.E. Sappho, poet
525 B.C.E. Buddha's Great Enlightenment
Greek & Roman Classical 322 - 443 B.C.E. Pindar,
Greek musician & poet
450 - 420 B.C.E. Polykleitos, referring to the
Doryphoros Pliny stated, "he alone of human kind is
deemed to have emboided the principles of his art in a
single work."
ca. 490 - 430 B.C.E. Phidias, Greek sculptor,
artistic director of the construction of the Parthenon
447 - 432 B.C.E. Parthenon erected in Athens
375 - 340 B.C.E. Praxiteles, Greek sculptor
399 B.C.E. Death of Socrates
fl. 390 B.C.E. Lysippos, personal sculptor to
Alexander the Great.
(NOTE: The Greek artists Phidias, Polykleitos,
Lysippos and Praxiteles, regardless of their own
sexuality — and dozens of other artists, produced
countless images of male lovers in which the Greek
world was awash; e.g., innumerable bronzes and marbles
of Zeus and Ganymede, Achilles and Patroklus, Herakles
and Iolaus, Herakles and Hylas, Dionysius and Ampelos,
Apollo and Hyakinthos, Orestes and Pylades, and
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
221 - 206 B.C.E. Great Wall of China
65 - 5 B.C.E. Horace, Greek poet,
38 B.C.E. Laocoon
4 B.C.E. Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
1 B.C.E. Reclining Hermaphrodite, Greek
1 C.E.
32 C.E. St. Peter (first Pope)
72 - 80 C.E. Colosseum built in Rome
79 C.E. Pompeii & Herculaneum buried by Mt. Vesuvius
(many homoerotic scenes were painted on the walls of
Pompeii
88 C.E. Pope Clement I (first Pope for whom any
reliable information is known)
105 C.E. Invention of paper in China
117 - 138 C.E. Hadrian & Antinuous, Emperor Hadrian
in his agony of grief over the death of his young
lover, the beautiful, Bythnian youth Antinuous, raised
the boy to godhood.
Throughout the Roman Empire hundreds of busts and
full statues of Hadrian and Antinuous appeared.
Although all the artists were not necessarily gay --
(but many surely were) -- all these busts and full
statues were created to glorify and memorialize one of
the great gay loves of history.
140 C.E. Venus of Milo, sculpture (rediscovered in
1820)
300 C.E. Mayan Calendar
351 C.E. Theodosius forbids the Olympic Games
(approx.)
476 C.E. Fall of Rome
523 - 537 C.E. Hagia Sophia constructed in
Constantinople
540 C.E. Empress Theodora introduces long white
dresses, purple cloaks, gold emproidery, tiaras, and
pointed shoes
570 C.E. Mohammad
658 - 680 C.E. Caedmon, English poet
756 - 810 C.E. Abu Nuwas, Arabian poet. Considered
the greatest poet of his age in the Arab world and
still revered although part of his work is now
surpressed. One of the sections of his more than 5,000
surviving verses is devoted to "the love of youths."
Byzantine 800 C.E. Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman
Emperor in Rome
801 C.E. Charlemagne prohitits prostitution
932 - 953 C.E. The "Nine Classics" were first
printed from woodblocks in China
950 C.E. The temples of Kahjuraho, an enigma to this
day, they are covered with sculptural images of gods,
goddesses and a sacred elite engaged in every manner
of sexual congress including one strong image of a
priest performing "auparishtaka", a sacred act of
fellatio, on a visiting prince.
990 C.E. Development of systematic musical notation
1048 - 1122 C.E. Omar Khayyam, Persian poet &
astronomer
1000 C.E.
Romanesque 1054 The Great Schism between Greek
Orthodox & Roman Catholic churches
1073 Pope Gregory VII orders Sappho's works
destroyed in public bonfires in Rome and
Constantinople
1074 Excommunication of married priests
1088 Chung-Jen, Chinese painter & priest paints
with India ink on silk
1100 C.E.
1120 Angkor Vat founded in Cambodia
1200 C.E.
Gothic 1200 University of Paris founded
1215 Magna Carta signed by King John of England
1240 - 1302 Cimabue, Italian painter
1244 - 1314 Jacques De Molay, 23rd and last Grand
Master of the Knights Templer. Burned at the stake for
denying Christ and trampling on the Holy Cross but he
steadfastly denounced the accusations that the
Albigensian initiation ritual consisted of homosexual
practices.
1250 Oxford University founded
1267 - 1337
Giotto, Italian painter
1300 C.E.
Early Renaissance 1305 - 1306 Giotto paints frescoes
in Arena Chapel, Padua
1310 - 1321 Dante writes Divine Comedy
1325 Development of Noh plays in Japan
1350 Black Plague throughout Europe
1350 Boccaccio writes Decameron
1400 C.E.
1420 Oil paints came into general use
1421 Peking established as capital of China
1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake at Rouen
1435 Alberti writes della Pittura, treatise on
Renaissance painting
1445-1510 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter
1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter &
scientist
1456 Gutenberg prints Bible with movable type
1467 - 1516 Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian,
painter (student & lover of da Vinci)
High Renaissance 1475-1564 Michelangelo Buonarroti,
Italian sculptor, architect, painter, poet
1477-1549 Giovanni Antonio Bazzi aka Il Sodoma,
Italian painter
1465 First printed music
1490 Beginnings of ballet in Italian courts
1492 Columbus reaches New World
1494-1557 Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo, Italian
painter
1498 Savonarola burned at the stake in Florence (b.
1452)
1498 Leonardo paints Last Supper in Milan
1500 C.E.
1500-1571 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor,
goldsmith, writer
1503-1572 Agnolo Bronzino, painter
506 "Laocoon" group unearthed in Rome
1511 Vitruvius' De Architectura republished
1514 Correggio discovers chiaroscuro
1519 - 1522 Magellan circumnavigates the world
Mannerism 1529 Women seen for first time on Italian
stages
1534 Jesuit Order founded
1542 Pope Paul III establishes Inquisition in Rome
1542 - 1543 Portuguese first Europeans to visit
Japan
1543 Copernicus published theory that the planets
orbit the sun
1558 Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603) ascends the throne to
became the queen of England
1550 Vasari writes Lives of Artists
1573-1610 Michelangelo da Caravaggio, painter
1564 - 1593 Cristopher Marlowe, the greatest
English playwrite before Shakespeare, "He who loves
not tobacco and boys is a fool"
1564 - 1616 William Shakespeare, the greatest
English playwrte ever, and think of those sonnets to
Master W.H...need I say more. In the 1640 edition John
Benson changed all the "he" pronouns to read "she."
1588 The defeat of the Spanish Armada by the
English
1597 Daphne, first opera, composed by Rinuccini and
Peri
1600 C.E.
1601 - 1602 Shakespeare writes Hamlet
1602 - 1654 Jerome Dusquesnoy, Flemish sculptor,
executed for sodomy
1604 Cervantes writes Don Quixote
1611 King James Bible published
1619 First Negro slaves in English North America
1620 Pilgrims settle at Plymouth
1625 - 1689 Kristina, (Queen of Sweden 1644 - 1654)
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan
1632 Taj Mahal built
1642 Rembrandt paints Nightwatch
1655 - 1743 Vittore Ghislandi (Fra Galgario),
Italian painter
1663 Milton writes Paradise Lost
1669 Palace of Versailles begun
1685 Handel & Bach
1700 C.E.
Rococo 1710 Meissen produces first true porcelain in
Europe
Fl. 1720 Margaret Clap (known as Mother Clap). Ran
the best known and most popular molly house in 18th c.
London
1721 Bach composes Brandenburg Concertos
1741 Handel composes Messiah
1741 - 1825 Henry Fuseli, Swiss artist, writer
1753 Foundation of British Museum
Neoclassism 1755 - 1831 Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor
Butler
1757-1822 Antonio Canova, painter
1759 Voltaire writes Candide
1767 - 1824 Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, French
painter
1769 Watt invents steam engine
1776 Declaration of Independence
1779 - 1843 Washington Allston, American painter
1789 George Washington becomes President
1790 - 1833 Goethe writes Faust
1793 Grand Gallery of Louvre opened
1800 C.E.
Romanticism c. 1800 - c. 1992 Mary Ann Willson
(Wilson), American painter, activist
1805 - 1807 Beethoven composed the Fifth Symphony
1809 - 1864 Hippolyte Flandrin, French painter --
heterosexual -- but best known for his painting, "Nude
Young Man Seated on a Rock" (1835/6), which became an
icon of gay imagery after Wilhelm von Gloeden took a
photograph of a young man in the identical pose around
1900.
1815 - 1882 Emma Stebbins, sculptor
1818 Byron begins Don Juan
1819 - 1892 Walt Whitman, poet
fl. 1810 - 1825 Mary Ann Willson, American, drawing
& watercolor
1821-1915 Ann Whitney, sculptor
1822-1899 Rosa (Marie Rosalie) Bonheur, French
painter
1825-1895 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, -- considered the
grandfather of gay liberation.
Hudson River School 1827-1910 William Holman Hunt,
painter
1830 - 1908 Harriet Hosmer, sculptor
1830-1919 Emma Jane Gay, photographer
Realism 1835 - 1902 Samuel Butler, British painter &
writer
1837-1913 Okuhara Seiko, Japanese, poet & painter
1837 - 1887 Hans von Marees, German painter
1840-1905 Simeon Solomon, British painter
1845 - 1909 Mary Edmonia Lewis, American sculptor,
(may have been lesbian)
1843 - 1917 Zahrtmann (Peter Henrik) Kristian,
Danish painter
1844-1916 Thomas Eakins, American painter
1844-1927 Victorine Meurent, painter
Pre-Raphaelites 1848 - 1894 Gustave Caillebotte,
painter
1849 - 1896 Weiwha, Native American "berdache"
(Zuni)
1850
Arts & Crafts 1852-1921 Seisui, painter, (female)
1852 - 1929 Vincenzo Gemito, Italian sculptor
1852 - 1930 Wilhelm von Pluchow, photographer
1854 - 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, dramatist, wit
1856 - 1925 John Singer Sargent, American painter
1856 - 1942 Anna Klumpke, painter
1856 - 1931 Wilhelm von Gloeden, German
photographer
1850 - 1935 Mary Lowndes, British, stained glass
1858 - 1927 Louise Abbema, painter
1858 - 1927 Henry Scott Tuke, British painter
1860
1860 Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" published
1860 - 1913 Frederick William Rolfe, British
artist, writer
1861 - 1865 American Civil War
1961 - 1935 Dorothy Kate Richmond, New Zealand,
painter
1861-1943 Edith S. Watson, photographer
1861-1951 Ethel Walker, painter
1862 - 1915 Eugene Jansson, Swedish painter
1862-1928 Loie Fuller (The Electric Fairy), dancer
Impressionism 1863 "Salon des Refuses" in Paris
1863 - 1929 Carl von Platen, Swedish photographer
1863-1937 Charles Shannon, painter (partner of
Charles Ricketts)
1864-1933 Fred Holland Day, American photographer
1864-1952 Frances Benjamin Johnston, photographer
1865 Yale University opens first Dept. of Fine Arts
in U.S.
1865 - 1941 Elizavera Kruglikova, Russian,
printmaker (painter?)
1865-1950 Elsie De Wolfe (Lady Mendl), American
interior designer
1866-1931 Charles Ricketts (partner of Charles
Shannon), painter
1866-1952 Alice Austen, photographer
1867 - 1948 Dora Ohlfsen, Australian sculptor
1867 Karl Heinrich Ulrichs made a speech urging the
repeal of sodomy laws in Germany
1876-1939 Gwen John, painter, , bisexual
1869-1929 La Goulue (Louise Weber), dancer
1869-1947 Frances Hodgkins, painter
1969 - 1951 Andre Gide, French, author & Nobel
Prize winner
1869-1958 Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, architect
1870
1870 - 1925
Magnus Enckell, Finnish painter
1870-1949 Etta Cone, collector, amateur
photographer
1872 - 1929 Sergi Diaghilev, dance producer
1872 - 1942 Elisar von Kupffer, German painter and
poet
1872 - 1898 Aubrey Beardsley, painter
1873 - 1962 Ethel Sands, painter
1874 - 1951 J(oseph) C(hristian) Leyendecker,
German-American painter, illustrator
1874 - 1961 Violet Oakley, American, painter,
illustrator
1874 - 1970 Romaine Brooks, American painter
1875 The "Hermes" of Praxiteles found at Olympia,
Greece
1876 - 1972 Natalie Clifford Barney, amateur
photographer
1877 - 1943 Marsden Hartley, American painter
1878 - 1939 Kuz'ma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkim,
Russian, painter
ca. 1878 - Evelyn Wyld, designer
1878 - 1939 Jessie Lillian Buckland, photographer
1878 - 1976 Eileen Gray, architect, designer
1880
Post-Impressionism 1880 Metropolitian Museum of Art
opened
Nabis 1880 - 1964 Carl Van Vechten, American
photographer, writer,
ca. 1881 - 1964 Kate Weatherby
Fauvism 1881?-1968 Florence Wyle, sculptor
1882 - 1973 Evelyn Wyld, designer
1883 - 1935 Charles Demuth, American painter
1884 - 1937 Glyn Philpot, English, painter
1885 - 1965 GAN (Gosta Adrian Nilsson), Swedish
painter
ca. 1885 - 1952 Margarethe Mather, photographer
1885 - 1956, Marie Laurencan, painter, bisexual
1883 - 1964 Jane Heap, wrote about art & owned
gallery
1885 - 1975 Clara Sipprell, American photographer
1885 - 1978 Duncan Grant, British painter
1886 - 1931 Lili Elbe (Einar Wegener), Danish
painter,
1886 - 1972 Ella Louise Naper (nee Champion),
bisexual
1887 - 1963 Una Troubridge, born Una Elena Taylor,
Lady Troubridge, sculptor
1887 - 1966 Malvina Hoffman, sculptor
1887? - 1968 Frances Loring, sculptor
1894 - 1970 Mariette Lydis, Vienna-born painter,
bisexual
1888 - 1989 Eleanor Raymond, architect
1887 - 1986 Georgia O'Keeffe, American, painter
1889 - 1957 James Whale, British film director
1889 - 1963 Jean Cocteau, French painter, writer,
filmmaker
1889 - 1978 Hannah Hoch, German collagist, bisexual
1890
Art Nouveau 1890-1950 Vaslav Nijinsky, dancer
1890 - 1976 Jeanne Mammen, German illustrator
1891-1956, Cecile Walton, painter, bisexual
1891-1979 Laura Gilpin, American photographer
1892 - 1953 Hubert Stowitts, painter
1892-1982 Djuna Barnes, painter
1892 - 1990 Erte (Romain de Tirtoff),
Russian-French designer, artist
Modernism 1893 New Zealand gives women the right to
vote -- USA not until 1919
1893-1968 Mercedes De Acosta, amateur photographer
1894 - 1954 Claude Cahun (Lucy Renee Matilde
Schwob) French photographer
1894-1972 Violet Keppel Trefusis, drawings
1894 - 1996 Eyre de Lanux, American designer,
(bisexual)
1895 - 1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch painter
1895 - 1957 Ottone Rosai, Italian painter
1895-1978 Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein), British
painter
Ashcan School 1896 "Die Jugend" & "Simplicissimus"
important German art magazines first appear
1897 Magnus Hirschfeld founded the
Scientific-Humanitarian Committee in Germany.
1896 - 1956 Filippo De Pisis, Italian painter
1897 - 1985 Germaine Krull, photographer,
(bisexual)
1898-1978 Dorothy Hepworth, painter
1898?-1980 Tamara De Lempicka, Polish painter,
(bisexual)
1898-1957 Pavel Tchelitchew, Russian painter, stage
designer
1898 - 1977 Ellis Wilson, African American painter
1898-1991 Berenice Abbott, photographer, bi
1899-1965 Elizabeth McCausland, critic
1899 - 1970 Sir William Dobell, Australian painter
1899 - 1983 George Cukor, American theater and film
director
1900 C.E.
1900 - 1935 Rene Crevel, French Dadaist
1901-1970 Thelma Wood, sculptor
1900-1971 Patricia Preece, painter
1897-1979 Dorothy Arzner, film director
1900-1982 Betty Parsons, painter, art dealer
1900-1988 Louise Nevelson, sculptor, bi
1900 - 1991 Arno Breker, German sculptor
1901 - 1979 Sir Norman Hartnell, British fashion
designer and designer to the Queen and Queen Mother
1901 - 1979 Beauford Delaney, American painter
1901 - 1989 James Richmond Barthe, sculptor
1902 - 1949 Christian Berard, French
1902 - 1972 John Banting, British painter
1903 - 1957 George Quaintance, American painter
1903 - 1975 Herbert List, German photographer
1903 - 1996 Count Eigil Knuth, Danish sculptor &
explorer-archeologist
1904 - 1978 Oliver Messel, British stage designer,
artist
1904-1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer
1904 - 1990 Angus McBean, British photographer
1904 - 1994 Tatsuji Okawa, Japanese, painter
1904-1999 Paul Cadmus, American painter
Expressionism 1905 First regular cinema established
in Pittsburgh, Pa.
1905 - 1976 Edward Burra, British painter
1905 - 1994 Robert Medley, British set designer
1905 - 1988 Jared French, American painter
1905 - Ruth Bernhard, photographer, bisexual
1906 - 1976 Luchino Visconti, Italian filmmaker &
opera director
1906 - 1977 John Beresford Fowler, British interior
decorator
1906 - 1982 Walter Battiss, So African
1906 - 1987 Richard Bruce Nugent, American artist,
writer
1906 - Philip (Cortelyou) Johnson, American
architect
1907 Picasso's "Demoiselles d'Avignon"
1907 - 1954 Frida Kahlo, Mexican Jewish painter,
(bisexual)
Cubism 1907-1955 George Platt Lynes, American
photographer
1907 - 1974 Bruce of Los Angeles (Bruce Harry
Bellas), American photographer
1907 - 1996 Lincoln Kirstein, American art patron,
writer, impresario
1908 - 1996 Leonor Fini, Argentine-Italian artist,
(bisexual)
1908 - 1999 Quentin Crisp, British writer and public
figure (attended many of LLGAF's openings)
1908 - 2000 Gisele Freund, photographer
1909-1992 Francis Bacon, British painter
1909 - 1999 Horst (Horst P. Horst), German
photographer
1910
1910 - 1957 George Quaintance, painter
1910 - 1989 Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter
Der Blaue Reiter 1911 - 1975 Alexis Preller, South
African, painter
1912- 1992 John Cage, American musician
1912 - 1977 Keith Vaughan, English painter
1912 - 2004 Agnes Martin, American painter
1911 - 1999 Lon of New York (Alonzo Hanagan),
photographer
1913 - 1999 James Broughton, American filmaker
1914 - 1962 &
1913 - 1966
Robert Colquhon &
Robet MacBryde, Scottish painters aka the Two Roberts
1913 The Armory Show in New York
1914 - 1918 World War I
1915 - 1989 Donald Friend, Australian painter,
illustrator, writer
ca. 1915 - Go Hirano, Japanese, painter
1916-1982 Martin Battersby, painter
Dada 1916 - 1986 Brion Gysin, English Surrealist
1916 - 1989 Neel Bate aka Blade, American painter,
illustrator
1916 - 1990 Alfonso Ossorio, Flipino American
painter and assemblagist
1917 - 1957 John Minton, British painter,
illustrator
De Stijl 1917 - 1983 Lloyd Lozes Goff, American
painter
1917 - 2002 Mary Meigs, painter
1918 - 1963 Sonia Sekula, painter
1918 - 2003 Rollie McKenna, photographer
1918 - Bernard Perlin, American painter
Bauhaus 1919 - 1998 Bill Ward, painter, illustrator
1920
Surrealism 1920-1991 Tom of Finland (Touko
Laaksonen), Finnish painter, illustrator
1920 - 2003 Robert Blackburn, African American
printmaker
Art Deco 1920 - Peter Flinsch, German/Canadian,
painter
1920 - George Tooker, American painter
Harlem Renaissance 1921-1963 Joan Eardley, painter
1921 - 1989 Goh Mishima, Japanese, painter
1921 - Jeffrey Smart, Australian painter
1922 - 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian filmaker
1922-1996 Nell Blaine, painter, bi
1922 - 2002 Darold Perkins (aka Perk), American
painter
1922 - 1992 Bob Mizer (Athletic Model Guild, AMG),
photographer
1923 - Ruth Mountaingrove, photographer
1923 - 1995 Avel C. deKnight, African American
painter
1923 - 2002 Larry Rivers, American painter (bi?)
1923 - Ellsworth Kelly, American painter
1924 - 1988 Goh Mishima, Japanese illustrator
(1921? - 1983?)
1924 - 2006 Arlene Raven, American, a pioneering
historian & advocate of women's art
1924 - Kendall Shaw, painter
1925 - 1970 Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer
1925 - 1985 Rock Hudson, American actor, (died of
AIDS)
ca. 1925 - Rita Hammond, photographer
1925- Robert Rauschenberg, American painter
1926 - 1994 Philip Osborne, British painter
1927 - 1995 Ray Johnson, American collagist
1928 "The Well of Loneliness" by Radycliffe Hall
published
1928 - Cy Twombly, American painter
1928 - Robert Indiana (Robert Clark), American
painter
ca. 1928 - 1973 Tamotsu Yato, Japanese,
photographer
1928 - 1987 Andy Warhol, American painter,
printmaker, filmmaker
1928 - 1989 Gerhardt Liebmann, photographer
1929 Museum of Modern Art opens
1929 Stock market crash
1929 - 1982 John Button, American painter
1929 - 1990 Frank Weber aka Bastille, American,
illustrator & painter
1929 - Kenneth Anger (Kenneth Wilber Anglemyer),
American filmmaker
1929 - Betty Dodson,(bisexual)
1930
1930
Gandhi (Mohandas K. Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi)
1930 - 1992 Nestor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer
1930- Jasper Johns, American painter
1930 - George Dureau, American photographer,
painter
1930 - Kay Tobin (Kay Lahusen), American
photographer
1930 - Roy Blakey, American photographer
1931 - Geoffrey Hendricks, mixed media
1932 - 1989 Jack Smith, American film & performance
artist
1932 - Sir Howard Hodgkin, British painter
1932 - Duane Michals, American photographer
1932 - Nye Farrabas (ne Bici Forbes), American
conceptual artist
1933 - 1967 Joe Orton, English playwrite
1933 - 1988 Paul Thek, American mixed media artist
1933 - 1991 Dom Orejudos, aka Etienne, Stephen &
Dom, painter, illustrator
1933 - Nigel Kent, English, illustrator
1933 - Michael Leonard, born in India, painter
1933 - James Bidgood, American filmmaker
1933 - Edward Lucie-Smith, photographer, writer
1934 Paul Cadmus' "The Fleets In" exhibited at the
Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC
1934 - Yvonne Rainer, American, choreographer and
filmmaker
1934 - 1987 Peter Hujar, American photographer
1934 - 2003 Bhupen Khakhar, painter, India's first
openly gay artist
1934 - Kate Millett, American painter, sculptor,
writer
1934- Don Bachardy, American painter
1935 - 1990 Charles Bell, American painter
1935 - 2003 Mildred Thompson, African-American
abstract expressionist painter
1935 - Delmas Howe, American painter
1935 - David Hutter, painter
1936 - 1970 Eva Hesse, German born American
minimalist painter & sculptor
1936 - 2003 Monique Wittig, French, feminist,
social theorist, & novelist
1936 - 2003 Patrick Procktor, Irish painter
1936 - Dianora Niccolini, photographer of the male
nude
1936 - Lucas Samaras, Greek, photographer
1936 - Claudio Bravo, Chilean, painter
1937 Nazis' opened the show, "Degenerate Art," in
Munich
1937- David Hockney, British painter, printmaker,
photographer & stage designer
1937 - Graham David Smith, painter
1937 - 1987 Tom Waddell, founder of gay games (1982)
1938-1997 Olaf Odegaard, painter, illustrator
1938 - Monica Sjoo, Swedish, (bisexual)
1938 - 1993 Rudolf Nureyev, dancer
1938 - Hilton Brown, American painter
1939 - 1945 World War II
1939-1985 Mario Dubsky, American painter
1939 - 1989 Scott Burton, American installation
artist
1939 - Gon Buurman, Dutch photographer
1939 - 1990 Ronad B. Monroe, European American
assemblagist
1939 - 2002 Robert Giard, photographer
1939 - Cheryl A. Traendly, photographer
1939 - Louise Fishman
1939 - Hawk Madrone, photographer
1939 Barbara Hammer, American filmaker
1940
Abstract Expressionism 1940 - 2002 John Burton
Harter, American painter
1940- Arthur Tress, American photographer
1940 - David Jarrett, American photographer
1940 - Paula Wallace, photographer
1941-1994 Derek Jarman, British filmmaker, writer
1941 - Michael Craig-Martin, Irish painter
1941 - Ellen (Bedoz) Shumsky, photographer
1941 - Tony (Antonio) Patrioli, Italian
photographer
1941 - Robert Wilson, American set and performance
artist
1942 - 1994 Joe Brainard, American mixed-media
artist
1942 -
1965 -
David Medalla, Phillipine , and
Adam Nankervis, Australian, time based work
1942 - Jody Pinto, American, painter
1942 - Laurie Toby Edison, photographer, (bisexual)
1942 - Cathy Cade, American photographer
1942 - Wayne Snellen, American painter (third
Director of LLGAF)
1942 - Michael Morris, England/Canada mail art and
Canadian Fluxus art
1942 - Ulrike Ottinger, German filmmaker
1942 - Rosa von Praunheim, German filmmaker
1942 - Barton Lidice Benes, American conceptual
artist
1942 - Garland Eliason French, American painter
1942 - Meredith Monk, American correographer &
composer
1943 - 1990 John Eric Broaddus, American, maker of
artists books and wearable art
1943 - 1993 Luis Caballero, Colombian painter
1943 - Tee A. Corinne, American photographer
1943- Fran Winant, American painter
1943 - Ted Fusby, painter
1943 - Norman Hatton, photographer
1943 - Sachi Yamamoto, photographer
1943 - Carol Newhouse, photographer
Gilbert and George, painters, performance
Gilbert Proesch, Italian
George Passmore, English
1944 - 1994 Michael Buthe, German performance
artist
1944 - 1995 Bill Costa, photographer
1944 - 2006 Arlene Raven, historian & advocate for
women's art
1944 - Lili Lakich, neon artist
1944 - JEB (Joan E. Biren), American photographer
and filmmaker
1944 -
Eloy de la Iglesia, Spanish filmmaker
1944 - Harmony Hammond, fiber, mixed-media
1944 - Jean-Daniel Cadinot, French photographer,
director & producer of pornographic films
1945 United Nations organized
1945 - 1990 Ethyl Eichelberger, American,
performance artist
1945 - 1996 Franklin D. Israel, American architect
1945 - 1999 Sadao Hasegawa, Japanese, painter
1945 - 2002 Ed Cervone, painter, illustrator
1945 - Nancy Fried, American sculptor
1945 - Honey Lee Cottrell, photographer
1945 - Leigh Mosley, photographer
1945 - Nancy Rosenblum, photographer
1945 - Charles C. Hill, Canadian art curator
1945 - Tom Bianchi, photographer
1945 - Keith Milow, English painter and sculptor
1946 - 1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, American
photographer
1946 - 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German
filmmaker
1946 - 1985 Stephen Varble, performance artist
1946 - 1994 Gin Louie, Chinese American
photographer & assemblagist
1946 - 1999 Martin Wong, American painter
1946 - Andris Grinberg, Latvian film and
performance artist, bisexual
1946 - Juan Davila, Chilean (living in Australia),
painter
1946 - Lynne Fernie, Canadian artist & filmmaker
1946 - Bruce Weber, photographer
1946 - Richard Taddei, painter
1946 - John Waters, American filmaker
1946 - Bill Sullivan, painter
1947 - Happy Hyder
1947 - 1993 David Knudvig, American painter
1947 - Rex, American, illustrator
1947 - James Saslow, American scholar & art
historian
1948 - 1995 Robert Farber, American mixed media
artist
ca. 1948 - 1998 Remsen Wolff, photographer
1948 - 2004 Alvin Jerome Baltrop, photographer
1948 - Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, American sculpture &
installation
1948 - Sudie Rakusin, American painter
1948 - Ricardo Cinalli, Argentine painter
1948 - Marleen Gorris, Dutch filmaker
1948 - 2005 Robin Tichane, American, painter
1948 - Berthold Bell, German illustrator &
photographer
1948 - Eric Fischl, painter, (there are rumors
only)
1949 - Simon Watney, British art historian, AIDS &
gay activist
1949 - Jean Sirius, photographer
1949 - Pedro Almodovar, Spanish filmmaker
1949 - Carlos Quiroz, photographer
1949 - Ross Bleckner, American painter
1949 - Elana Dykewoman (Elana Nachman), American
writer
1949 - Caroline H. Vaughn, American photographer
1949 - Lenore Chinn, painter
1950
Pop Art 1950 Mattachine Society (Harry Hay, founder)
Color Field 1950 - 1982 Hibiscus aka George Harris,
American performance artist
1950 - 1990 Tseng Kwong Chi, Chinese, photographer
1950 - 1990 Jimmy De Sana, American photographer
1950 - 1993 Arch Connley, American, mixed media
artist
1950 - 1994 Angel Borrero, Puerto Rican, conceptual
artist
1950 - 2003 Adrienne Fuzee, African American curator
1950 - Deborah Bright, American photographer
1950 - Douglas Simonson, painter
1950 - Mel Odom, illustrator
1950 - James Fetterman, painter
1951 - 1992 Bern Boyle, American filmmaker &
photograper
1951 - Nahum B. Zenil, Mexican painter
1949 -
1953 - Pierre & Gilles
Pierre Commoy , &
Gilles Blanchard
1951 AMG (Athletic Model Guild) & Physique
Pictorial began publication
1951 - 1987 Alex Vallauri, Brazilian graffiti artist
1951-1989 Philip Core, British, painter
1951 - 1993 George Dudley, American painter (first
Director of LLGAF)
1951 - 1995 William Bruce Wipsiepe, mixed media
artist
1951 - Katie Niles, American photographer
1951 - Mats Gustafson, Swedish watercolorists
1951 - June Redfern, painter
1951 - Janet Cooling, American painter
1951 - Pedro Almodovar, Spanish filmmaker
1952 - 1988 David Robilliard, English poet and word
artist
1952 - 1995 Cookie (Annjohnna) Andrews-Hunt,
photographer
1952 - 1999 Vernon "Copy" Berg
1952 - 2002 Herb Ritts, photographer
1952- Lari Pittman, American painter
1952 - Sal Monetti, American painter
1952 - Jenny Kahn, American
1952 -
1958 - David McDermott, &
Peter McGough, American performance, paintings &
photographs
1952 - Deni Ponty, painter
1952 - Deborah Kass
1953 - 2002 Frank Moore, American painter
1953 - Brian Clarke, British multimedia artist
1953 - Sunil Gupta, Indian photographer
1953 - Nan Golden, American photographer, bisexual
1953 - Gus Van Sant, filmmaker
1953 - Marcel Odenbach, German video artist
1953 - Michael Tice, American painter
1953 - Roberta Almerez, photographer
1953-1992 Patrick Angus, American painter
1954 - 1992 David Wojnarowicz, American painter
1954 - Mike Kelley, painter
1954 - Jorge Posada, American/Colombian, painter
1954 - Robin Metcalfe, Canadian curator, writer &
gay activist
1955 - 1989 Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Nigerian
photographer
1955 - 1993 Pepe Espaliu, Spanish mixed-media
artist
1954 - Annie Sprinkle, American filmmaker,
performance artist & porn star
1955 - Per Barclay, Norway conceptual artist
1954 - Robert Gober, American sculptor &
mixed-media artist
1955 - 1991 Herve Guibert, French photographer &
novelist
1955 - Donald Moffett, American conceptual artist
1955 - Ken Kelly, American painter
1955 - Patrick Webb, American painter
1955 - Tom Strider, American
1956 - Piotr Nathan, Polish installation artist
1956 - Robert Flynt, American photographer
1956 - Neil Emmerson, Australian mixed-media artist
1956 - Elliot Linwood, American conceptual artist
1956 - John Lindell, American stencil templates for
wall logic diagrams
1956 - Tony Feher, American, mixed media artist
1956 The Ladder, Daughters of Bilitis
1957 - 1993 Cyril Collard, French filmmaker, author
1957 - 1994 Marlon Riggs, American filmaker
1957 - 1996 Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cuban conceptual
artist
1957 - David Hutchinson, American painter
1957 - Mark Flood, American painter
1957 - Bill Travis, American photographer
1958 Guggenheim Museum opens
1958 Caffe Cino coffee house opens in Greenwich
Viollage catering to gay, bohemian clientele.
Playwrites Robert Patrick, Doric Wilson & Lanford
Wilson read there.
1958 - 1990 Keith Haring, American painter
1958 - 1995 Jerome Caja, American mixed-media
artist
1958 - 2002 Timur Novikov, Russian painter
1958 - 1992 Darrel Ellis, American photographer
1958 - 1993 Andrew Heard, English painter
1958 - Nique Le Transome, South Vietnam, painter
1958 - Fin Serck-Hanssen, Norway photographer
1958 - Craig Bailey, photographer
1958 - Rick Castro, American photographer
1958 - Partick Safarti, photographer
1958 - Robert Taylor, English photographer
1959 - 1989 Mark Morrisroe, American photographer
1959 - Sheila Pepe, American, installation artist
1959 - Beau, illustrator
1959 - John McLachlin, Canadian photographer
1959 - Julio Galan, Mexican painter
1959 - Simon English, West German painter
1959 - Erwin Olaf, painter, illustrator
1959 - Patrick Traer, Canadian multi-media
1959 - Hunter Reynolds, American performance artist
1959 - Kent, American, illustrator
1959 - Gregg Anaki, Japanese-Canadian
1960
Op-Art 1960 - 1988 Jean-Michel Basquiat, painter
1960 - Carrie Moyer, American, painter, co-founder
of Dyke Action Machine (DAM)
Fluxus 1960 - Tim Miller, American performance artist
1960 - Charles LaDray, American miniaturist
1960 - John Dugdale, American photographer
Post Modernism 1960 - Nayland Blake, American curator
& conceptual artist
1960 - Joseph Radoccia, painter
1960 - R(andy) D. Riccoboni, painter
Conceptualism 1960 - Ralf Konig, German cartoonist
1960 - Isaac Julien, English filmaker
Photorealism 1960 - Jack Pierson, American
photographer
1960 - Richard Burton, American painter
1960 - Isaac Julien, British film and video artist
1960 - Micah Lexier, Canadian conceptual artist
1960 - Glenn Ligon, American painter
1960 - Michael Petry, American painter, performance
artist
1960 - John Dowd, American painter
1960 - Sonia Melara, El Salvador, painter
1961 - 1994 Leigh Bowery, Australian performance
artist
1961 - 1995 Craig Coleman, American sculptor
1961 -
1969 - Michael Elmgreen, &
Ingar Dragset, Danish & Norwagien multi-media artists
1961 - Keith Boadwee, American abstract painter
1961 - Todd Haynes, American filmaker
1961 - Jose Villarrubia, Spanish painter
1961 - Eric Rhein, American
1961 - Steve Walker, Canadian painter
1961 - Zoe Leonard, American photographer
1962 - 1995 Hugh Steers, American painter
1962 - Zackie Achmat, South African writer,
filmmaker & activist
1962 - 1994 Hamad Butt, Pakistani installation
artist
1962 -
1960 -
James Barrett, English aka Art2go, &
Robin Forster
Minimalism 1962- Attila Richard Lukacs, Canadian
painter
1962 - Steven Cohen aka Princess Menorah, South
African artist
1962 - Steven Underhill, photographer
1962 - Ross Watson, Australian painter
1963 - 2002 Richard Rule
1963 - Matthew Stradling, British painter
1963 - Lothar Gotz, German site-specific artist
1963 - Ajamu (Ajamu Ikwe-Tyehimba), British
photographer
1963 - Ron Athey, American performance artist
1963 - Guy Reid, South African, carver/sculptor
1964 - Sue Schaffner, co-founder of the Dyke Action
Machine (DAM)
1964 Life magazine publishes a cover story,
"Homosexuality in America." Article features a
photograph taken at a leather bar called "The Tool
Box" in San Francisco
1964 - Oliver Herring, German mixed-media sculpture
1964 - Martin Gustavsson, Swedish painter
1964 - Gregg Bordowitz, American video & filmmaker
1964 - Li Ming Shun (Calvin), Chinese American,
painter
1964 - Gengoroh Tagame, Japanese, erotic
illustrator
1964 - Michael Shaowanasai, American living in
Bangkok, performance artist
1965 - 1999 Robert Blanchon, American conceptual
artist
1965 - Lyle Ashton Harris, American photographer
1965 - Oliver Boberg, German photographer
1965 - G.B. Jones, Canadian, painter (considered by
many the female Tom of Finland)
1965 - Maxx Sizeler, American conceptual artist
1965 - Raphael (Rafi) Perez, Israel, painter
1966 - Keith Mayerson, American drawing & books
1966 - Paul Pfeiffer, American video artist
1966 - Mike Sale, English photographer/video artist
1966 - Michael Meads, American
1967 Oscar Wilde bookstore opens in NYC -- first
gay bookstore in the USA
1967 - Roberto Rincon, American, photographer
1967 - Bjarne Melgaard, Australian installation
1967 - Daphne Scholinski, American, artist & author
1968 - Rebecca Swan, New Zealand photographer
1957 - Della Grace (Del LaGrace Volcano),
photographer
1968 - Aileen Boyce, American painter
fl. 1968 - 1994 General Idea (A.A. Bronson, Felix
Partz, Jorge Zontal), Canadian multi-media artists and
activists (real names respectively Jorge Saia, Michael
Tims, Ron Gabe)
1968 - Ralph Bourque, American
1968 - Wolfgang Tillmans, German photographer
1968 - George Towne, American painter
1968 - Keith Perelli, American
1968 - Audra Kohout, American
1968 - Tanya Brugerra, Cuban performance artist
1969 - Lee Wagstaff, English body artist
1969 Stonewall Riots in NYC
1969 First show at the Leslie-Lohman loft
1969 First man on moon
1970
1972 - Patty Chang, Asian-American performance
artist
1973 - Brad Dupuy, American
1975 Opening of the Leslie/Lohman Gallery (as a
commercial gallery on the corner of Broome and Wooster
in SoHo, NYC)
1975 First Drummer magazine published.Some of
Robert Mapplethropes first published photographs
appeared in its pages and the magazine became an
important vehicle for publishing the work of all the
major homoerotic illustrators.
1975 - Ayala Weiss, Israel, sculptor
1976 - Per Christian Brown, Norway photographer
In the 70's & 80's there existed several galleries
in NYC devoted to gay art including, Robert Samuel
Gallery, ROB Gallery, Stompers, Foto, Stoned Wall
Galerie & Thompson Gallery. All closed in the early
80's due to financial difficulty and the advent of the
AIDS crisis.
1978 Rainbow Flag -- Gilbert Baker designed the
first rainbow flag for the SF parade
1979 Radical Faeries
1979 The Great Lesbian Art Show in Los Angeles
1980
Neo-Expressionism 1980 Internet born
1981 Leslie/Lohman Gallery closed
Graffiti Art 1981/1982 ADVENT OF AIDS
1986 Tom of Finland Foundation established (TOF:
1920 - 1991)
1987 First ActUp meeting in NYC (Larry Kramer,
founder) & Gran Fury established
1989 Ehibition, "The Perfect Moment" by Robert
Mapplethorpe cancelled at the Corcoran Gallery in
Washington, DC
1990
1990 Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation established
as a non-profit GLBTQ arts organization and opens a
gallery at 127B Prince Street in SoHo, NYC)
(Charles W. Leslie and J. Frederic Lohman, founders)
1990 Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in Cincinnati
-- museum & director indicted for obscenity (found not
guilty)
1992 Queer Resources Directory (QRD), online
directory
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