Browsing Tag LGBTQ+ History

June 17, 2019

The Gay Day Archive   Today, at least a million spectators line the Pride parade route along Fifth Avenue each year. But in its earliest days, the celebration…

June 12, 2019

“Every woman who wants to be beautiful should be beautiful”   Among the many items up for auction in our June 20…

June 10, 2019

Auctions offer a moment where the sometimes-incalculable significance of an object is quantified. The price is reached through collaboration: specialists, consignors, the market,…

May 29, 2019

The Pride Sale An Exploration & Celebration of the Art, Influence & History of the LGBTQ+ Community We invited Eric Marcus, the founder and host of the Making Gay History…

May 3, 2019

An Exploration & Celebration of the Art, Influence & History of the LGBTQ+ Community Our first Pride Sale, being held in the same month as WorldPride and the 50th…

April 15, 2014

New discoveries are often made during our auction previews. Sometimes a guest will identify a place depicted in a work of art, or recognize a name in an inscription. One wonderful…

March 28, 2014

Among the highlights of our April 17, 2014 auction of Vernacular Photography is a small archive of photographs and ephemera relating to cross-dressing and gay rights in New York…