Three Ottoman Homosexual Miniatures from the Manuscript of Atâyî's Poems
An 18th-century Ottoman manuscript: how love between men was judged, mocked, and celebrated in the empire.
Art
Two Scenes of Sex Between Men in the Etruscan Tomb of the Chariots
Lovers beneath the stadium stands, a bearded onlooker, and the Etruscan philosophy of the "eternal banquet."
The Hermitage's 'Amorous Couple': An Iranian Painting with Gender Ambiguity
An anonymous early 19th-century Iranian painting in which a beauty and a beardless youth are nearly indistinguishable.
Homoeroticism of the Victorian Era: Male Intimacy in Photographs from the 1850s–1890s from the Herbert Mitchell Collection
A gallery of portraits in which men embrace and hold hands.
Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist
How Orthodox Christianity, butterflies, a scientific career, and male eroticism came together.