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“Sex Crimes,” organized by ClampArt and Ward 5B, explores queer culture as it has been historically defined by legislation in English-speaking countries outlawing sexual relations between consenting adults of the same gender. These draconian laws, interchangeably referred to as Crimes Against Nature, Unnatural Acts, and Sex Crimes, have led to mass incarceration, institutionalization, conversion therapy, public shaming, familial rejection, and the wholesale death of gay people.

The exhibition “Sex Crimes” provides artwork and literature with homosexual content that was often created in a …