This book explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation, reflecting the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual culture. At the same time, the book tackles such issues as the advantages 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. 60 illustrations.

Emmanuel Cooper on Francis Bacon. Richard Dellamora on Warhol and postmodernism. Sunil Gupta on race and queer ar. Richard Kaye on the gay icon of St Sebastian. Wendy Leeks on Ingres and the lesbian viewer. Reina Lewis and Katrina Rolley on lesbians and the fashion spread. Thais Morgan on lesbianism and nineteenth century aestheticism. Carl Stychin on the censorship of lesbian and gay art. Simon Watney on the visual poetics of mourning.