OUT/LINES: Underground Gay Graphics from before Stonewall

Gay male representation of sexuality has a long history of varied visibility and acceptance, but the 100 or so years of queer life before Stonewall were a period of unprecedented self-identification as well as renewed pressure to hide and suppress the erotic imagery of gay men in western culture. Out/Lines features a resurrection of erotic gay images, once virtually buried and invisible, that circulated in clandestine communities whose sexualized visibility was a potentially devastating risk-a wealth of approximately 200 previously unpublished obscene” images from the queer pre-Stonewall underground. Drawn mainly from American