Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

RESEARCH MILESTONES

A Timeline of Gay and Lesbian Artists and 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 testifying to our existence. 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 with lesbians & women in red and gay men in blue. 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 (1943-2006) who shared her list of lesbian artists with LLM and for her support of this project. Also to Charles Leslie who has made many helpful suggestion. If you would like to be included email me. Be sure to specify your birth date, nationality, and type of artist.)

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1000 B.C.E.
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Period/Movement	Date(s)	Event/Person


Ancient	30,000 B.C.E.	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
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	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.	Moha
	658 - 680 C.E.	Caedmon, English poet
	756 - 810 C.E.	Abu Nuwas, Arabian poet. Considered the gremmad atest 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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	1600 C.E.

Baroque	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
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	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
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	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)
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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 - 2006	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
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	1910
	1910 - 1957	George Quaintance, painter
	1910 - 1989	Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter
	1910 - 2008	John B. Lear, American, 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
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	1920

Surrealism	1920-1991	Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen), Finnish painter, illustrator
	1920 - 2003	Robert Blackburn, African American printmaker
	1920-2010	Kenneth Dover, Greek scholar and publisher of the influential book, Greek Homosexuality

Art Deco	1920 - 2010	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 - 1999	Don Emerson Wight, designer, fabric
	1924 - 2006	Arlene Raven, American, a pioneering historian & advocate of women's art
	1924 -	Kendall Shaw, painter
	1925 - 1970	Yukio Mishima, Japanese writer
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	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
	1927 - 2004	John Carter, English, painter
	1928	The Well of Loneliness" by Radycliffe Hall published
	1928 - 2011	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)
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	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
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	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
	1935 - 2009	Cornelius McCarthy, English, painter
	1936 -	Dianora Niccolini, photographer of the male nude
	1936 -	Lucas Samaras, Greek, photographer
	1936 - 2011	Claudio Bravo, Chilean, painter
	1936 – 2011	Lou Maletta Founder of Gay Cable Network in NYC
	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
	1939 -	Jack Fritscher, photographer, videographer, writer
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	1940

Abstract Expressionism	1940 - 2002	John Burton Harter, American painter
	1940-	Arthur Tress, American photographer
	1940 -	David Jarrett, American photographer
	1940 -	Nancy Grossman, American, sculptor
	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
	1942 – 2003	Maxine Fine, American painter
	1943 - 1990	John Eric Broaddus, American, maker of artists books and wearable art
	1943 - 1993	Luis Caballero, Colombian painter
	1943 - 2006	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
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	1943-	Gilbert Proesch, Italian (Gilbert and George, painters, performance )
	1942-	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 - 19164	Peter Samuelson, English, painter
	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
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	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	Pierre & Gilles Pierre Commoy
	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
	1951 - 2011	Andrew Sichel, American, painter
	1952 - 1988	David Robilliard, English poet and word artist
	1952 - 1995	Cookie (Annjohnna) Andrews-Hunt, photographer
	1952 - 1999	Vernon 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
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	1952 -	Deni Ponty, painter
	1952 -	Deborah Kass
	1953 - 2002	Frank Moore, American painter
	1953	Gilles Blanchard
	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 - 2012	Mike Kelley, American, performance artist, 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 filmmaker
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	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 - 2008	Stephen Hale, American painter
	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 - 2012	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
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	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
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	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.
	1977	Paul P., Canadian painter
	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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	2000 C.E.
	May 2, 2006	The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation opens a new gallery at 26 Wooster Street in NYC.
	November , 2011	The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation morphs into The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art



	No birth dates yet...Help! Dawn Brayford, English painter Elizabeth (Lib) Jenks Clark, sculptor Hideki Co, Japanese, painter Douglas Crimp, art historian Durk Dehner, co-founder of the Tom of Finland Foundation Sandra de Sando, painter Domino, aka Don Merrick, illustrator Jim French aka Colt, Lugar & Arion, painter, illustrator Go Fujimoto, Japanese, illustrator Sanshi Funayama, Japanese, illustrator George Fuwa (aka Hisatomo), Japanese, illustrator Robert Gable, American painter, died 2008 Philip Hitchcock, sculptor Ben Kimura, Japanese, painter Herb Klein, photographer Shun Kochi, Japanese, photographer Tenugui Kura, Japanese, illustrator Ama Memec, British sculptor David Nelson, American, mixed media artist Kokichi Otake, Japanese David Pearce (aka Don Fletcher), painter Player, illustrator Lawrence Rinder, American, curator Scott Treleaven, collagist Ming Vase (Benjamin Lu), Warhol's lover & drag artist Viste Virgil Wong, visual and media artist

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