"Charles Leslie and the late Fritz Lohman were partners in life and art collecting—in the 1960s, they joined their contemporaries and started holding impromptu salons featuring queer and otherwise homoerotic art. In 1987, they went official with the namesake foundation we know today aiming to showcase LGBTQ+ art and artists, a move which gained them museum status in 2011. With 30,000 pieces in the archives, featuring everyone from Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol to under-sung members of the community past and present, there is much to see in a relatively small space." - Andrea Whittle, Charlie Hobbs
Kristine Eudey/Courtesy Leslie-Lohman Museum
