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Public Displays of Affection: Fifty Years of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

by James M. Saslow

A museum’s history through queer art and visibility

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A museum’s history through queer art and visibility

James M. Saslow traces the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art from Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman’s SoHo loft exhibition space to its development as a public gallery, nonprofit foundation, and government-chartered museum. The account links that institutional history to the display of work by queer artists excluded from mainstream venues and to the political risks attached to showing images of LGBTQ affection. The museum’s changing status also provides a lens on wider shifts in cultural and social visibility. The book’s scope is both artistic and civic: it follows the creation of an institution devoted to LGBTQ visual expression across five decades.

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  • Readers interested in LGBTQ art and cultural history.
  • Readers exploring the history of museums, galleries, and art institutions.
  • Readers interested in the relationship between artistic visibility and social change.

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LGBTQ visual expressionQueer art institutionsCensorship and public displayCultural and social visibility

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Public Displays of Affection: Fifty Years of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art recounts the half-century crusade of an intrepid and foresighted gay couple who, weeks before 1969's Stonewall riot, kicked off today's vibrant queer art scene by opening their SoHo loft to exhibit works by queer artists who were contemptuously barred from mainstream galleries and museums. From their private home to a public gallery, then a non-profit foundation, and finally a government charter, the artistic and political passions of Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman brought forth the world's only art museum dedicated to the visual expression of LGBTQ lives. "Public display of affection" usually means couples acting out physical desire in sight of others. But to the founders of New York's Leslie-Lohman Museum, it meant the public display of pictures celebrating such affection - which risked obscenity charges. Leslie-Lohman's dramatic evolution has mirrored broader cultural and social progress, and the Museum continues to play a vital role in promoting the visibility of queer images.

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