As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- 3,340 GAY PERSON STOCK ILLTRATNS AND CLIPART
- DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
Feast your ey on the hottt male mols om all around the world, om Brazil to the U.S. to Italy. Who says we feature a disproportnate number of unrwear mols? Specifilly, gay mols unrwear? OK, well… maybe we do. But then aga, why wouldn't we? * gay person images *
"Around three years ago, I was workg on the layout of a book about physique photography wh photos om the 1950s, whose athetics and visual worlds were clearly tend to appeal to a gay dience. In the urse of this work, I asked myself: what would a book wh ntemporary gay and queer photography look like?
"Around that time, I beme aware of the works of Matt Lambert and Florian Hetz, and I started to look for other gay and queer photographers. Indulgg their sire for self-prentatn, affirmatn, and reflectn, many photographers portray male homosexualy particular as a private idyll.
However, a number of documentary photographers provi evince that beg gay or lbian n still lead to margalizatn, isolatn, stigmatizatn, and vlence certa untri and muni. Began an antigay mpaign attributed to a puranil effort to clean up the cy's streets advance of the 1964 World's Fair. The mpaign closed gay bars by systematilly revokg liquor licens and simultaneoly targeted gay men through entrapment.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Fd Gay Person stock illtratns om Getty Imag. Select om premium Gay Person imag of the hight qualy. * gay person images *
The mpaign was brought to an end after Mayor Ldsay entered office 1966 (partly due to lobbyg om Dick Lesch and Mattache) queens (g the language of the era) were the equent targets of the NYPD's Public Morals Sectn, which enforced all laws ncerng vice and gamblg, which also clud homosexualy. Gay Pri Day, June 29, 1975, Fred W.
Found as Parents of Gays (you n see the name on one of the signs this photo), the anizatn was started by three cisgenr upl wh queer children: Jeanne and Jul Manford, Amy and Dick Ashworth, and Bob and Elae Benov.
3,340 GAY PERSON STOCK ILLTRATNS AND CLIPART
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. * gay person images *
Amy Ashworth was a tirels supporter and activist on behalf of gay rights until her ath 2017]. Gay Pri, June 1, 1983, Jill Freedman/Getty Imag.
STAR At Gay Pri Day March, June 24, 1973, Fred W.
DWIGHT HOWARD SUED BY MAN CLAIMG NBA STAR FORCED HIM TO HAVE GAY THREOME
The Cy of New York recently announced the pair will be honored wh a memorial near the Stonewall se; the procs of choosg the artist is currently a failed occupatn at NYU October 1970, Rivera drafted a document (ma public by activist and wrer Rea Gossett) wh the headle, "Gay Power When Do We Want It?
" It was a ll to arms aimed at the police and their relentls harassment of, "our gay brothers and sisters. Was found to support gay people livg on the streets or dangero suatns.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Makg rent was a perennial challenge; they lost the apartment after eighteen 1972, the drivg forc of the queer rights movement, now firmly unr the ntrol of whe, middle-class gays and lbians, had succeed phg trans people of lor, cludg those that had been at the foreont of the movement jt a few years earlier, to the sil.
Her fiance and tth-tellg were met wh boos, although her fal cheer for Gay Power -- her preferred rallyg cry -- was appld. Gay Pri Rally In Washgton Square Park, July 27, 1969, Fred W.
Gay & Lbian Pri Para, 1980, Arpadi/IMAGES/Getty Imag. Gay Pri, June 1, 1984, Barbara Alper/Getty Imag. Gay Pri, June 1, 1982, Barbara Alper/Getty Imag.