CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

The world’s first LGBTQ art museum with a collection of 22,000 objects including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and sculptures. Among the artists present are Berenice Abbott, David Hockney, Ingo Swann, Catherine Opie, Andy Warhol, Tom of Finland, Delmas Howe, Jean Cocteau, David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, George Platt Lynes, Horst, Duncan Grant, James Bidgood, Duane Michals, Charles Demuth, Don Bachardy, Attila Richard Lukacs, Jim French, Del Lagrâce Vulcano, Paul Thek, Peter Hujar, Arthur Tress and many others.
The organization was founded as a non-profit foundation in 1987 by Charles W. Leslie Lohman and Fritz, who have supported LGBTQ artists for over 30 years. In May 2011, in recognition of the Foundation’s work and collection, the New York State Board of Regents awarded it official museum status making it the first and only gay art museum in the world.

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