God save the queer (1.01)

Antinous as the Eguptian God Osiris

Antinous from Patra, Athens

Ancient Roman marble of a youthful Hercules

Menelao & Patroclo

Pan teaching flute (and God knows what else) to a very young Daphnis

Pre-columbian Chimú vessel

David, Michelangelo Buonarrotti

Illustrated Turkish erotic manuscript, 1773

La fraternité des peuples, bass relief (detail), 1885, Jules Dalou

Translucent marble sculpture of wrestlers, Italy, 19th century

Death of Achilles, Innocenzo Fraccarolli, Villa Reale, Milano

Le Désespoir by Jean Joseph Perraud, 1989, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Apollo und Daphne (detail), Arno Breker (1900-1991)

Lucius Verus

Athlete wrestling with a snake, 1877

Hercules & Antaeus, Villa Medicea di Castello

Aquiles herido, 1881, Angel Díaz Sánchez

Wrestlers, Foro Italico, Roma

Boxer, Stadio dei Marmi, Foro Italico, Roma

St. Sebastian by Rubens

Dante et Virgille en enfer, 1850, William Adolph Bouguereau

Man wearing laurels, John Singer Sargent (1874-1880)

Salomé by Wilde & Beardsley

Oscar Wilde, 1882

Cain by Baron Wilhelm Von Gloeden, 1902

Cowboys in chaps

Honeymooners

Tony Sansone by Edwin Townsend, early 1920's

Grace Selon of Art: The slave (Charles Atlas & Anthony Sansone)

Feral Benga

Illustration by George Leonnec for La Vie Parisienne, 1920s

Two men in suits with bowties

Randolph Scott & Cary Grant

Pacific Sunday at sea, US Navy sailors, 1928

Gay dancing, Paris, 1930s

Dick Powell, Al Jolson and male dancing couple (Wonder bar, 1934)

Les danseurs, Fanny Blanc

Montgomery Clift

Tennesee Williams

Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais

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