1924  

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Dempsey and Firpo (1924) by George Bellows

Inversions, the first French gay journal is published. Produced between 1924 and 1926, it stopped publication after the French government charged the publishers with compromising public morality.

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Art and culture

• Inversions, the first French gay journal is published.
• André Breton publishes the Surrealist Manifesto
• Heroin illegal in USA in the "Heroin Act"

Film

• The Inhuman Woman (1924)
• Aelita (1924)
• The Hands of Orlac (1924)
• Ballet mécanique (1924)
  • Entr'acte (film)
• Diagonal Symphony (1924) - Viking Eggeling

Art

• Adam and Eve, tableau vivant of nude Marcel Duchamp and Bronja Perlmutter
• Le violon d'Ingres, photo by Man Ray

Literature

• Corydon (1924) André Gide

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