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Queer Art History: Visibility, Code, and What Was Hidden in Plain Sight
David Hockney painted "We Two Boys Together Clinging" in 1961, when homosexuality was illegal in the UK. Robert Mapplethorpe's 1989 retrospective was cancelled by the Corcoran Gallery. "Don't name it, just look at it." A history of queer art, visibility, and code.
