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- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,.
'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
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. He wr the preface:A year before my father's ath [om lung ncer], I started gog to a regular group-therapy ssn for gay men New York Cy. This year we celebrate our 13th anniversary Voice has a fantastic terview wh Pastfield, which he reflects on the role the Inter played patg a tly dimensnal portra of gay Inter played a big part how I found people.
I thk most outspoken gay men and all facets of the LGBT muny are those people who fed themselv very much by beg gay and they have that issue that they really want to share wh the world.