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11/15/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Tennessee Williams in 1965

Modern Drama and Dramatists
 
During the modern era, homosexual themes and characters were only rarely depicted in dramatic works. Official censorship of the theater caused most dramatists to encode homosexual content in publicly-presented plays.
 
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10/15/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Illustration from Christina Rossetti

Monsters, Witches, Ghosts, and Goblins
 
Both male and female homosexuality or homosexual elements appear throughout the broad scope of ghost and horror fiction and in horror films. Particularly since the nineteenth century, ghosts, goblins, witches, vampires, and other demonic creatures symbolize the radically different and are ascribed thoughts and deeds that are marginalized or suppressed in daily life.
 
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10/01/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Frida Kahlo

Latin American Art and Literature
 
Latin American machismo has contributed to the oppression of GLBT people and limited their expression in the arts. As a result, Latin American GLBT artists often portray a desire for both sexual and political liberation.

Latin American literature includes many works that have homoerotic themes or queer characters, though the of same-sex relations they describe differ sharply from those found in European and North American literatures.

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09/15/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Leonard Bernstein

Music: Classical, Twentieth Century
 
The term classical music is a convenient shorthand that refers to the body of Western art music, as distinguished from popular or folk music. It is an important component of Western culture to which glbtq people have contributed significantly.
 
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08/01/2003 

 
 
 
 
  A design by Percier and Fontaine

Architecture and Architects
 
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender architects have made substantial and diverse contributions to architecture, though the impact of sexual orientation on building design is unclear.
 
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07/01/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Truman Capote

American Literature: Gay Male, 1900-1969
 
There was frank and affirmative gay male American writing from the century's start, but it was usually published abroad or by marginal presses or remained private and unpublished. As the century advanced, there were marked increases in both the amount of frank gay male American writing and the amount of it issued by mainstream publishers.
 
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06/15/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Alvin Ailey

Dance
 
In the twentieth century, artistic dance has proven to be a haven for glbtq people, who have made significant contributions in almost every area, including as choreographers, performers, and teachers. A number of gay choreographers have also included, with varying degrees of explicitness, homoerotic content in their dances.
 
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05/01/2003 

 
 
 
 
  American Landscape (1933) by George Platt Lynes.

Photography: Gay Male
 
Gay male photography has blurred the boundaries between art, erotica, and social history and merits recognition for its contribution to fine art, documentation, photo-journalism, and advertising as well as erotica.
 
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04/20/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Hilda Doolittle

Poetry: Lesbian, Pre-Stonewall
 
No canonical list of pre-Stonewall lesbian poetry exists, but few would disagree that each of the six women profiled here contributed significantly to the lesbian literary heritage.
 
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03/01/2003 

 
 
 
 
  Alice B. Toklas

Autobiography: Lesbian
 
In the first century of its existence, lesbian autobiography has moved from being coded to being outspoken, and it is both wide ranging and contradictory in the stories that it tells.
 
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