Amos Badertscher Images and Stories

Hunter O’Hanian
is a curator and former executive director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives and director of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York.

Jonathan D. Katz 
is Associate Professor of Practice in the History of Art and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, curator of
The First Homosexuals
at Wrightwood 659 Gallery in Chicago, and author of 
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art 
(2024) and editor of 
The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a Global Identity 1869–1939
 (2025), both published by Monacelli.

Beth Saunders
is curator and head of Special Collections at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and curator of
Lost Boys: Amos Badertscher’s Baltimore
.

James Smalls
is Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of
Homosexuality in Art
.

Joseph Plaster
is Curator in Public Humanities and Director of the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Rafael Alvarez
is an author and screenwriter based in Baltimore and Los Angeles.

Theo Gordon
is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of York.