The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life

The exhibition is diffuse with a sense of urgency to document this history against aggravated societal and governmental threats of erasure.

The First Homosexuals Is a Defiant Celebration of LGBTQ+ Life
Andreas Andersen, "Interior with Hendrik Andersen and John Briggs Potter in Florence" (1894), oil on canvas (under licence from MiC - Direzione Musei Statali della Città di Roma - Photographic Archive; by kind permission of the National Museums Directorate of the City of Rome - Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum)