Gay sculpture

These activists and innovators have paved the way with their paintings, photographs, and sculptures. The works of artists from French 19th-century animal painter Rosa Bonheur to American pop artist Andy Warhol have changed the course of art history.

Queer art has had a place in popular culture for centuries in spite of dangerously repressive and inhospitable attitudes towards homosexuality that could lead to imprisonment and even death, but in honor of Pride month we take a look at 10 influential 20th century artists whose depictions of covert love and desire helped fling open the doors of.