All art is quite useless.

Untitled, Photo by Rudolf Koppitz

shunga (erotic japanese woodblock art) printed during the russo-japanese war, 1905

Le Cyclist. Astride Maillol.

Gaston Colin.

I am out therefore I am (1989) by Adam Rolston.

The New Yorker June 17, 1996

Bronski Beat (c.1984) One of the, if not the, first out Gay rock group to get a major record deal. The group consisted of Jimmy Somerville (vocals), Steve Bronski (keyboards, percussion) and Larry Steinbachek (keyboards, percussion). While this version of the group only lasted two years before Somerville left for a solo career, their album Age of Consent helped define not only gay culture but the 80's overall.

Embrace (1952) photographed by George Platt Lynes

He neither published nor exhibited his work in his lifetime, but posthumously exhibitions have been held in the Schwules Museum in Berlin and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City. A book, Leonard Fink: Coming Out, was published on the occasion of the latter exhibition. His work is held in the archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. (Source: Wikipedia)

Brooklyn Boys, New York (early 1960s) photographed by Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux

Kentucky, Photo by William Gedney, 1972

Photographer: William Gedney (Wikipedia) Summer of Love, 1967

William Gedney. Kentucky, 1972

William Gedney. Kentucky, 1972

📸 by William Gedney

📸 by William Gedney

Photography by William Gedney