An exhibition examines how art was affected by the idea of sexual identity. Its curators say the show has run into resistance at home and abroad.

“The term homosexual was coined in 1869,” says Jonathan D. Katz, the co-curator, along with art historian Johnny Willis, of The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939.

The Oregon Department of Corrections has moved to fire three corrections officers at the state’s largest prison who sent a flurry of racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist texts, videos and images ...

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