DÜSSELDORF, Germany (AP) — There is an intimate portrait of a lesbian couple, a painting of young naked men enjoying themselves by the water and one of a flamboyantly dressed, androgynously looking person at a fairground.

Queer art has often been neglected and marginalized in the past but a new exhibition in Germany called “Queer Modernism. 1900 to 1950” is trying to overcome old prejudices and show the significant contributions of queer artists to modernism .

The show, which opens to the public on Friday in the western city of Düsseldorf , shines a spotlight on art by the LGBTQ+ community during the first half of the 20th century — a time marked both by more sexual freedom in cosmopolitan centers like Paris or Berlin, but also by persecution and criminalization of homosexuality, e

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