Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) A nude man, c.1504.

buff

1944 - South Pacific Soldier

Beach Goers

Ben Dahlhaus by Esra Sam for Vorn Magazine

Robert Mitchum

Mitchell Wick

Two men dancing, Harlem, 1920s.

According to George Chauncey’s eponymous Gay New York, the Harlem Renaissance of the ’20s provided an opportunity for gay men to create their own social and cultural spaces within the burgeoning nightlife in the neighborhood.

Suck on that cigar

Royal

Hiding behind the hand

Two Pairs of Atlantes, Giacomo Maria Giovannini, 1694, engraving.

mignons’ - or boyfriends - of French King Henry III 0f France

Attributed to Lucas de Heere (ca. 1534-84): ‘Triple Profile Portrait’, ca. 1570. This stunning and unusual portrait is not as it appears. The figures outfitted in fashionable costume are men. Adding to the intrigue, scholars have only recently attributed the work to Lucas de Heere, a Netherlandish painter who worked in Paris between 1559 and 1561, and in London after 1567. Research suggests that the sitters may, in fact, be the 'mignons’ - or boyfriends - of French King Henry III (1551-1589).

Know your Barber

Siegfried Sassoon and his infamously decadent boyfriend, aristocrat/writer Stephen Tennant

Britain’s great poet, WWI hero, activist Siegfried Sassoon and his infamously decadent boyfriend, aristocrat/writer Stephen Tennant, the brightest of Britain’s “bright young things”. Sassoon was mentor to Wilfed Owen, friends with Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, editor to EM Forrester and Otis Sitwell. Though he had many famous lovers before and after, Sassoon was depressed for months when Tennant suddenly ended the relationship. It would remain the most important in each of their lives. He would soon marry and have a son. Tennant, though having many partners, would never have another truly significant relationship. Though his beauty eventually faded, his unique charm and flamboyant lifestyle endeared him to the rich and famous for decades until his death at 81. Tennant was the inspiration or basis for a number of characters in 20th c. British literature.

Pansy Places on Broadway

Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 – December 12, 1999) was an American artist. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism. He painted with egg tempera.

Cadmus was born on December 17, 1904 in New York City, the son of artists, Maria Latasa and Egbert Cadmus. His father worked as a commercial artist and his mother illustrated children's books.

National Academy of Design (1863-65), one of many Gothic Revivalbuildings modeled on the Doge's Palace, Venice

At age 15, Cadmus left school to attend the National Academy of Design for 6 years. He then enrolled at the Art Student League in 1928 taking life-drawing lessons while working as a commercial illustrator at a New York advertising agency.[4] He furthered his education while traveling through Europe from 1931 to 1933 with fellow artist, Jared French.

Luigi Lucioni (American, born Italy, 1900-1988). Paul Cadmus, 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 2007.28.

After traveling through France and Spain, Cadmus and French settled In a fishing village on the island Mallorca. In 1933, they headed back to the United States after running out of money, where Cadmus was one of the first artists to be employed by The New Deal art programs, painting murals at post offices.

The Fleet's In!, 1934

In 1934, he painted The Fleet's In! while working for the Public Works of Art Project of the WPA. This painting, featuring carousing sailors, women, and a homosexual couple, was the subject of a public outcry and was removed from exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery. The publicity helped to launch his career.

Paul Cadmus and Jared French by PaJaMa

He worked in commercial illustration as well, but Jared French, another tempera artist who befriended him and became his lover for a time, convinced him to devote himself completely to fine art. In 1979, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1980.

Paul Cadmus and Jon Anderson his partner.

Jon Andersson, who became Cadmus's longtime companion of 35 years, was a subject of many of his works. The two met on a pier on Nantucket in 1964, when Andersson was twenty-seven and Cadmus was fifty-nine. "I never wanted to be with anyone else", Cadmus remarked. Thirty-six years later, at sixty-three and ninety-five, when Paul died, there were still together.

Paul Cadmus, The Haircut, 1986

In 1999, he died in his home in Weston, Connecticut due to advanced age, just five days shy of his 95th birthday. Cadmus's sister, Fidelma, was the wife of philanthropist and arts patron Lincoln Kirstein.

Girl Please

That Little bit of Flare

Whats your Price?

Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (Dir. George Stevens, 1951)

Frederick W. Hughes

Frederick W. Hughes, Andy Warhol's business manager for more than 25 years

Frederick W. Hughes, Andy Warhol's business manager for more than 25 years, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 57. The cause was complications of multiple sclerosis, a disease from which he had suffered for 18 years, said Mary-Beth Hansard, his sister. The impeccably dressed Mr. Hughes was every bit as much of a personality as the pop artist he managed. Known for his acerbic humor, quick wit and inability to pass an antiques store without buying something, Mr. Hughes became the executor of Warhol's estate when the artist died in 1987 after gall bladder surgery. Warhol's will left nearly all his assets to charity, specifically to a foundation that his estate was to create ''for the advancement of the visual arts.'' Shortly after Warhol's death, Mr. Hughes founded the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, a Manhattan organization. It became the center of a highly publicized legal battle in the early 1990's when Edward W. Hayes, the estate's lawyer, sued the foundation over the fees he said he was entitled to, based on the value of Warhol's art. Mr. Hayes was awarded $7.2 million, which was reduced on appeal to $3.5 million. Mr. Hughes ran the foundation until 1990, when he appointed Archibald L. Gillies as its president. The men fought bitterly, and Mr. Hughes was forced out as chairman of the foundation in 1992. Mr. Hughes was born on July 29, 1943, in Dallas. His father, Frederick W. Hughes, was a representative for several furniture companies. The family moved to Houston in 1947, and Mr. Hughes began taking art classes at the city's Museum of Fine Arts when he was 7. From 1961 to 1967 he attended the University of St. Thomas in Houston, where he majored in art history but did not graduate because he failed a theology course.

The art history department at St. Thomas was financed by Jean de Menil and his wife, Dominique, heirs to the Schlumberger oil fortune. The de Menils befriended Mr. Hughes, taking him on art-buying trips to New York and Europe and helping him get his first job, at the Alexander Iolas Gallery in Paris, which represented Magritte and Max Ernst. Mr. Hughes met Warhol in 1967 at a benefit for Merce Cunningham given at Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Caanan, Conn. In an interview in The New Yorker, Mr. Hughes recalled the meeting: ''I never questioned whether we'd get along or not. For one thing, he knew who I was, and he saw the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, just like I did. I had a nickname, le Dauphin, because I was so well taken care of by the Baron Jean de Menil and his beautiful wife, Dominique. I would buy art for them, and I was a presence at Castelli at my young age.''

Not only did Mr. Hughes run the Factory, Warhol's famous studio and hang-out, but he was also the publisher of Interview, the magazine Warhol founded. After Warhol's death, Mr. Hughes masterminded a 10-day auction at Sotheby's of Warhol's personal art and decorative objects. The sale drew crowds of curiosity-seekers who formed lines at Sotheby's York Avenue auction house. The sale brought $25.3 million, with one buyer paying $250,000 for a cookie jar. Like Warhol, Mr. Hughes was a compulsive collector. He lived in an ivy-covered town house on the Upper East Side that he called the Hotel Anglomania for its many portraits of English kings and queens. Warhol had lived in the house for 15 years before renting it to Mr. Hughes in 1974. Mr. Hughes bought the house from the estate in 1988 for $593,500. Besides his sister, he is survived by his mother, Jennie Wilson Hughes, both of Austin, Tex., and a brother, Thomas, of Houston.

Peter Watson

Victor William (Peter) Watson (14 September 1908 – 3 May 1956) was a wealthy English art collector and benefactor. He funded the literary magazine, Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly.