User:Tom Morris/LGBT visual arts

Many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other sexual and gender minorities have been involved in the production of visual arts including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and film. Historically, visual artists that are LGBT have often not been recognised as such, and contemporary art that has themes portraying same-sex attraction, sexuality, romance or dealing with issues facing gay people is often undervalued or classed as pornography or erotica.

Institutions

 * Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
 * Queer Cultural Centre

Visibility
For a long time, sexual orientation has not been discussed within the context of academic and school-based teaching about the visual arts. According to a study by the academic Laurel Lampela, while many art teachers in schools in the United States do include work by LGBT artists in their curriculum, they often do not discuss the sexual identity of said artists because of the problems it may raise with parents or because of a fear that they would then have to describe the sexual practices of lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Lamepla's research also found that school teachers were more aware of the work of gay male artists than of lesbian artists and attributes the cause of this to the lower visibility women artists have in general.