A comprehensive exploration of what constitutes a lesbian and gay artist and what differentiates them from their audience.

This exploration of the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures. At the same time it tackles such issues as the advantage of adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual art. This volume provides a space for lesbian and gay artists to exhibit their work and discuss its relationship to sexuality. It allows for a wide ranging theoretical and historical discussion of the place of lesbian and gay men within visual cultures and shows how much has been missed by a heterosexist approach to art history and the study of culture.