History of gay men

For the history of lesbians please see the gallery at lesbian history.

Pre modern (before year 1800) / Pre-moderno (antes del año 1800) / Pre-moderne (avant l'an 1800) / Pre-moderne (prima dell'anno 1800)

Pre-modern - images / Pre-moderno - imágenes / Pre-moderne - images / Pre-moderne - immagini

Americas

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  Spanish genocide of "sodomites"
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  George Catlin (1796-1872), Dance to the Berdache
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  Mayan cave painting in Guatemala
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Asia

China

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  Youths in erotic play
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  Youths reading poetry, drinking tea, and making love
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  Qing dynasty, late 19th ca., Beijing
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India / Inde

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  Anal sex between men (18th or 19th Indo-Persian art)
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  Anal sex between men (Gouache 18th century)
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  Bisexual threesome
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  Moghul miniature watercolor
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  Two men engaging in mutual oral sex

Japan / Japon / Giappone

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  Two male lovers
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  Miyagawa Isshô, Samurai kisses male actor, ca. 1750
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  Male Couple; Kitagawa Utamaro 1753 – 1806; c. 1802; half-size oban (horizontal yoko-e); 16-3 x 36-2 cms; woodblock color print
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  Suzuki Harunobu Shunga, ca. 1750.
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  homoerotic shunga by Miyagawa Isshô

Europe

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  Anselm Feuerbach, Plato's symposium.
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  Socratic love. French 19th century erotic drawing.
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  After Andrea Appiani, The death of Hyacinthus.
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  Jean Broc, The death of Hyacinthos.
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  Méry-Joseph Blondel, "The Death of Hyacinthus"

North Africa and West Asia

Egypt

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  Mastaba of Niankhkhum and Khnumhotep embrace
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  Niankhkhum and Khnumhotep

Ottoman Turkey

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  Anal sex with a wine boy. Titled at source as "Spilling the wine"
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  Men lining up to have sex with a youth
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Persia

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  Bagoas (eunuch of Alexander the Great)
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  Shah Abbas & wine boy
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1800-2000

1800-2000 - People / 1800-2000 - Personas / 1800-2000 - Personnes / 1800-2000 - Persone

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  Oscar Wilde (1882)
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  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1929)
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  James Baldwin (1969)
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  Michel Foucault (1974)
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  Allen Ginsberg (1979)

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

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  Male nudes wrestling
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  Nicola D'Inverno
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  Mario Mancini
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  Young man in reverie - Capri, 1878

Charles Demuth (1883-1935)

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  Turkish bath (1915).
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  Turkish bath (1916).
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  Thee sailors (1917).
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  Turkish bath with self portrait, (1918).
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  Dancing sailors (1918).
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  A distinguished air (1930).
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  Four male figures (1930 ca.).
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  Three sailors urinating (1930 ca.).
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  Two sailors urinating (1930 ca.).

21st century / Siglo XXI / 21me siècle / 21mo secolo

21st century - people / Siglo XXI - gente / 21me siècle - gens / 21mo secolo - persone

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  Elton John (2008)
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  Marc Jacobs (2017)
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  Tim Cook (2017)
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  Leo Varadkar (2017)
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  Pete Buttigieg (2020)

21st century - Maps / 21me siècle - Plans / 21mo secolo - Mappe

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  World homosexuality laws (including recognition of same-sex relationships)
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  Homosexuality laws: Africa
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  Homosexuality laws: Asia
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  State recognition of same-sex relationships in Europe
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  State recognition of same-sex relationships in North America (from Mexico north)
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  State recognition of same-sex relationships in South America
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  Recognition of same-sex relationships in the United States
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  Gay Adoption Map: Europe
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  Gay Adoption Map: North America