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LGBTQ+ communities have always gravitated towards the arts as a way to express queerness, defiance, longing, passion, and self. The forms that this expression takes varies as widely as the people within the community. Arts as a heading covers a wide swath of visual, performing, written, and other works, and we have divided the pieces in this gallery according to the discipline they most closely align with.

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Rope, 1947-1948
Cover for Gravedigger by Joseph Hansen, 1982
Tan Suit Ensemble by James Galanos, 1962
Gold record for "Melissa Etheridge" album by Melissa Etheridge, 1988
The Soul of Lilith, 1892
Finocchio's: House of the Fabulous Female Impressonators, undated A postcard of Finocchio's, that was a nightclub and bar in San Francisco. It shows five female impersonators standing in the back and five sitting in the front. The steps are a black and white checkered pattern and the background appears to be the stage. From left to right, starting in the back, a performer is wearing a bright pink robe with light pink feather lining, a silver patterned dress, silver shoes, and bright pink long earrings. Next the performer is wearing a pink and gold robe with a high collar, a pink dress, and a pink wig. The center performer is wearing a bright pink dress with a black belt. Next the performer is wearing a black and silver waistcoat with bright pink harem pants. At the end of the back row is a performer in a dark purple robe and dress, with peacock feathers and a peacock feather headdress. The five women in the front row are seated, all in similar 1920s flapper dancer outfits in different colors. From left to right, the first two women are turned slightly to the left and are in light purple outfits with pink feather headbands. In the center, facing forward, she is in a yellow dress with a green feather headband. Next, turned slightly to the right, she is in a dark purple dress and a dark purple feathered headband. Lastly, also turned to the right, she is in an orange dress and has an orange feathered headband.
Pandora's Box, 1929
William Haines, rendering of living room of the Sidney and Frances Brody residence, Beverly Hills, circa 1952
Florence Yoch, landscape design, “A Hillside Garden for Mr. George Cukor, West Hollywood,” 1936
Gown by Gilbert Adrian, 1948
Eloise Klein Healy, typescript draft of poem, “There Are No Words for the Sexual Acts of Lesbians,” circa 1984
Queerios, 2015
Excerpt from Sketchbook 11, Morris Scott Dollens, undated
Laura Aguilar, #6, from the series Plush Pony, 1992
Christopher Isherwood, typescript second draft of A Single Man, 1963
Don Bachardy, portrait of Stephen Spender, June 21, 1976