The vote favor of civil unns is one a long strg of achievements for the gay rights movement Illois, gog back nearly 90 years.
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THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN ILLOIS: A HISTORY
LINCOLN PARK — A new exhibn Lln Park explor early unrstandgs of same-sex sire sce the word “homosexual” was ed 1869.
“The First Homosexuals: Global Depictns of a New Inty, 1869-1930” draws on more than 100 patgs, drawgs, prts, photographs and film clips to explore how early homosexuals unrstood themselv and how society perceived ’s a two-part exhibn wh the first sectn on display at the Wrightwood 659 gallery, 659 W.
“‘The First Homosexuals’ is an ternatnal project of an credible sle, ” said Chirag G. Katz, Universy of Pennsylvania profsor of practice the history of art and genr, sexualy and women’s studi, wh associate curator Johnny one of the exhibn is anized to ne sectns on the send floor of Wrightwood first sectn, “Before Homosexualy, ” featur 19th century works showg how same-sex eroticism was portrayed unselfnscly before the term “homosexual” was ed Europe. “Colonizg” reflects on var dynamics, cludg the Euro-centric fn of early homosexualy, which often clashed wh Indigeno forms, and the Wtern perceptn that the East was that sectn clu Sri Lankan pater David Paynter’s mornist oil “L’après midi, 1935”; F.