After doing these past weeks readings on Stonewall and the progression of inclusion of LGBTQ+ art in museums I began to realize how little I knew about oppression in the arts based on sexual identity. For instance, when talking about Greek art, many times before the homoeotic nature of the art would often be hidden or obscured. As a history student I found this rather puzzling due to the fact that it’s been well known that in the ancient world (western) sexual relationships of the same sex were extremely common and many time not looked down upon. Thus I found it interesting especially in academic spaces for scholars to attempt to ignore or not even explain these historical facts that were reflected in art. I think my surprise about this comes from my background growing up in a very liberal area and being largely ignorant to these issues, especially in art. This leads me to the topic of intersectionality and how these historical pieces can be represented not just as LGBTQ+ art, but as art that represents a society. For instance, when talking about the bathhouse scene and the underlying sexual tension in said scene, I think that is one part of the art that should be explored in conjunction with Japanese bath house culture. Then if we expand on that Japanese culture as a whole. This sort of approach can be mimicked when exploring other cultures LGBTQ+ history while at the same time exploring the people’s history. I think this sort of approach would go a long way in showing the importance LGBTQ+ communities were important in developing the culture of the nations they have lived in. While I think this approach would be great in the Western world as the Washington Post suggested this is not something that can be safely done in other places like Brazil for instance. While this is true, I think through adopting such practices as I noted above could help the wider culture realize the importance the LGBTQ+ community played in shaping our world today.