Author: Patricia Grayhall

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December 29, 2021 0

Two Women in Search of a Country

By Patricia Grayhall

I blurted out. “We want to move to Canada…to live together.”

July 27, 2021 1

Why Doesn’t She Like Me?

By Patricia Grayhall
Why do any of us, after all, persist in wanting relationships whether platonic or romantic with people who are not available?

May-June 2025
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Art

‘It will be seen as a political exhibition.’

An interview with Jonathan D. Katz, the curator of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869–1939 – an exhibit at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 museum.

Essays

In the Beginning Was the Word

Between 1864 and late 1866, Karl Maria Kertbeny and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs had a sustained correspondence, which has mostly not survived. It is likely that they used the opportunity to discuss sexuality and activism.

Essays

The First Lesbian Image-Makers

By Tirza True Latimer: Both Louise Abbéma and Sarah Bernhardt were keenly aware of the camera’s potential to commemorate liaisons, to construct artistic personas, to enhance careers, and to challenge social norms. Bernhardt had famously posed for the photographer Achille Mélandri in an immaculate, man-tailored suit beside the pedestal where she was working on Abbéma’s bust.

Art

Amrita Sher-Gil’s Crossing Worlds

AMRITA SHER-GIL’S striking beauty and moody self-portraits have linked her to Frida Kahlo in the popular imagination. Both are examples of flamboyant painters who were fearlessly bisexual and exploited the medium of self-portraiture to tell the story of their turbulent lives in the male-dominated art world of the prewar years.
Blog
1. May 9, 2025 Christopher Isherwood at Home and Abroad
2. April 23, 2025 Domino Effect: An interview with the Playwright
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