Queer Art History & Icons

From clandestine salons to blockbuster retrospectives, queer art history is a saga of resilience, reinvention, and radical visibility. This hub retraces that lineage, spotlighting the trail-blazers who cracked open the canon—Robert Mapplethorpe’s transgressive lens, Catherine Opie’s domestic subversions, Tom of Finland’s unapologetic erotica—and the lesser-known pioneers whose legacies still electrify contemporary studios. Dive into concise timelines, exhibition reviews, archival photo essays, and think-pieces that decode how politics, sexuality, and aesthetics have intersected across centuries. Whether you’re researching a thesis, curating a Pride-month show, or simply chasing inspiration, bookmark this page: the past is very much alive here, continually reframed through a queer lens.