There's nothg like a good gay photo. You n hardly turn around a gallery whout bumpg to a photo that was eher snapped by a queer person or one for a subject: om Calyn Jenner's portra by Annie Leibovz to the provotive works of Robert Mapplethorpe to the geni of Andy Warhol, Cathere Opie, and Pierre and Gill. Maybe there's somethg queer about the photograph, the transformatn om a subject to an object a flash. Or maybe all our years of takg selfi for Grdr prepared for the job. In any se, what mak the gay photo gay is the look levels at the viewer: We are ed to beg seen, but now we n look back.
Contents:
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- GAY PICTUR
- 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
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Vcent Keh of MASCULAR Stud and Oliver Zke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the lnch of A Portra Isolatn, a project explorg emotnal and physil space the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global panmic grew spe and impact, gay men around the world were asked to subm self portras that reflected their experience of the ronavis lock-down. The ia behd the llectn was to show that gay men are affected by the crisis a siar way to everyone else but more so.
GAY PICTUR
* a gay picture *
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'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
The German anthology Me Schwul Auge | My Gay Eye has published works by over 500 ternatnal artists and thors. Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children.
”Amerin culture has not been particularly starved of imag of gay fatherhood, particularly recent years.
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NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr. Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy. Heynen “a lot of cred” for cludg a father like him — a sgle dad his 60s — sce he said there is often a lack of reprentatn of olr gay people art and media, which tends to foc on young, f men.
As a Black, gay man raisg a son on his own, Mr. Bt Gay Scene: Murray Bartlett, Las Gage 'The Whe Lot'.
Bt Sp-Roastg a Gay Married Couple: Jake Weary 'Animal Kgdom'. A picture speaks 1000 words, and this is even more te for gay pictur. Whether a portra of an LGBT lumary, a snapshot of a historic LGBT spot, a slishow of a Pri Para, or jt artistic shots of the sky, gay pictur are a ccial part of the life and history of LGBT people, and are ccial s documentatn.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
Has everythg unr the sun when to gay pictur. It is precisely this faceted humany that photographer Stt Pastfield, a gay man himself, sought to pture Gay Ameri, travelg 54, 000 across 50 stat three years to weave a powerful, profoundly human taptry of 140 fathers, brothers, sons, and iends om all walks of life, religns, ethnici, and backgrounds, who happen to be homosexual mal.
From lawyers to artists to teachers to farmers, his perceptive, eply personal portras pat a layered picture of ntemporary gay (male) life, the first-ever large-sle photographic survey of gay men always tell you to shoot what you love, and that objective led me to this project.
I cid that I would fd and meet a gay man om every state, listen to their stori, and photograph them the hope that I uld turn that material to a book that would change people's opns and te -- the book that I wish had existed when I was a lad. I wanted to produce a profound llectn of ordary, proud, out gay men who would otherwise never fd the spotlight.