Revealing America's Queer History, One State at a Time
In 1895, in the frontier town of La Grange, Texas, a doctor named John Carhart published a novel called Norma Trist. Its heroine, Norma Trist, was one of the first openly gay characters in American fiction. Now, pages from the book are part of a new art installation, which opened on September 10, at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn. The exhibit, called, 50 States: Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, features three major installations, one for each of the three states in the show’s title. Each one of them, the artists said, was inspired by a little known story from the early queer
