Exhibition Traces Early Homosexual Identity Through Art

Imagine a museum show about how people started understanding that some folks are into the same sex.

It's called "The First Homosexuals" and shows art from 1869 to 1939.

Before then, these ideas were new.

The exhibit shows how the word "homosexual" was used and how some people were treated unfairly.

It shows drawings and paintings that display the earliest portrayals of homosexual couples.

You'll see the art, but you'll also see some of the complicated thoughts of the time.

It also shows some artists who were not politically aligned.

This exhibition is interesting because it shows that people had mixed ideas about what it meant to be gay or lesbian.