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• PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
• THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
• PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Portras of pri: Touchg photographs reveal everyday life of gay upl the early 20th Century - before the closet door opened French screenwrer Sébastien Lifshz spent 20 years llectg photos om flea markets and garage salThey proudly portray alternative sexualy the U. And Europe at a time when many had to hi their te feelgs'The need to keep a memory of their love was stronger than the disapproval of neighbourhood photo lab', he said Published: 12:46 BST, 29 June 2014 | Updated: 14:47 BST, 30 June 2014 Advertisement It seems ordary enough - a photo album of upl exchangg everyday affectn their garns, their kchens, bed and the what mak the imag so touchg is that the upl were almost certaly gay, at a time when to be so was illegal many parts of the wtern screenwrer Sébastien Lifshz took more than 20 years to amass his llectn om flea markets and garage sal, where he beme fascated wh the reee happs of people who were often outsts society. Careee: French screenwrer Sébastien Lifshz spent more than 20 years llectg hundreds of photos om flea markets and garage sal which portrayed gay upl their everyday liv - at a time when what they did behd closed doors was illegal.

Mr Lifshz said he was fascated by their wealth of love and affectn Ambiguo: Bee he never knew the upl himself, Mr Lifshz uld not be sure if they were gay, bisexual or transgenr, or simply revellg sexual eedom Bee he never knew the upl himself, he uld not be sure if they were gay, bisexual or transgenr, or simply revellg sexual ambiguy and eedom. 'What astonished me was that their middle-class appearance didn’t match the act: the act of producg an image of homosexual love at a time when discretn was the norm, ' he said. Homosexualy remaed illegal Bra until 1967, and was only classified as an illns the U.

THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE

'Gay upl had plenty of reasons to be discreet the early 1900s. Homosexualy remaed illegal Bra until 1967, and was only classified as a mental illns the U.

Harry Hay found the Mattache Society, an early gay rights anizatn, Los Angel 1950. Among the polil buttons and the photos of gay motorcycle clubs, some artifacts are simply touchg: dis legend Sylvter’s panel om the Aids Memorial Quilt, for stance. The plague years loom large, imag of Act Up’s street protts and “die-s”, unflchg remrs of when an HIV diagnosis was a ath objects almost fy belief, such as newspaper clippgs of an unsuccsful 1970 attempt by a utopian group lled Gay Liberatn to move to Alpe unty, a ral stretch near the Nevada borr, numbers sufficient to take over.

PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

Photograph: Chuck Stallard/One Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv/OMCAAids and trans activist Connie Norman wh Robert Birch. Photograph: Chuck Stallard/One Natnal Gay and Lbian Archiv/OMCAQueer California pays special attentn to digeno people.