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Contents:

• ANTOE GAY
• BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
• ANTOE GAY
• ANTOE GAY - A "DEMONIC" POSSSN FOC

ANTOE GAY

antoe gay. "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.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE

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. Four s ago, the photographer Tom Bianchi began pturg the nearly 10, 000 gay men who every summer flocked to their En a specific part of New York’s Fire Island. Matthew Morroc“This photograph serv as the ver of my photo book, Complic, which tells the story of relatnships wh olr gay men New York om 2010 to 2015.

Photograph by Ey Manng“The first gay pri was a rt—not a logo, psule llectn, or rabow Shake Shack l. Photograph by Chris Smh“I remember that some of my earlit self-portras, taken while I was high school and still eply closeted, seemed like the only way that I uld privately exprs and see myself as the gay man that I knew I was.

Art platform “to promote queer and gay photography”, which now reprents more than 60 photographers om 24 untri cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia, and Turkey where LGBTQ+ rights are reprsed and queer liv are unr threat. “You may ask why do we need a platform and magaze for queer and gay photography”, Ghisla Pasl, -founr and -owner of The Ltle Black Gallery, curator and edor of BOYS! Said, “The simple answer is that queer and gay photography is grossly unrreprented the fe art world, and even more so the mastream media.

ANTOE GAY

Is phg back agast this and attemptg to make mastream and showsg queer and gay photography the ntext of fe art photography. He was the on air film cric on both Gaydar Rad and Gayd's breakfast shows and has ntributed to the UK's bt sellg LGBTQ publitn, Attu Magaze.

Volume 1, Domeni Cennamo, gay, gay men, gay photographer, gay photography, gay photos, Krzysztof Marchlak, Maths Katayama, michael epps, Michael Sønrgaard, Niv Shank, Pl McDonald, queer photographer, queer photography, queer photos, Serge Le Hidalgo, The Queer Review, Tyler Udall. Homosexualy has, for most of history, been a taboo subject.

It is only relatively recent tim that the subject of homoeroticism has been able to be addrsed wh any serns at all. Wh the growg acceptance of sexual diversy has e a rethkg of the role played by homosexualy art history. Christiany disapproved of all erotic art, but particularly anythg that hted at homosexual attractn.

ANTOE GAY - A "DEMONIC" POSSSN FOC

It did not stop the great paters of the Renaissance, many of whom are today acknowledged as gay, om portrayg the sexual allure of famoly, the var versns of St Sebastian’s martyrdom, showg a spicly mcular torso punctured by arrows, achieved inic stat among homosexual admirers who rpond not only to his physil bety, but also to his plight as a tortured, yet steadfast, martyr. Homosexualy as a label, or a mo of inty, did not appear Europe until the 19th century. ESTIMATE: £18, 000–25, took until the epochal social chang of the 1960s (and specifilly the crimalisatn act of 1967 the UK) for homosexualy to prise self out of the closet, and art acted as both talyst and rerr of the moment.

Mapplethorpe picted the sado-masochistic trop of gay sex, not primarily as attempts to outrage the public, but as ntral, if betifully shot, rerds of homosexual activy. By the time of his ath om an AIDS-related illns 1989, the alarmg spread of the disease had bee a clarn-ll for gay artists, rultg the explicly polil art of Keh Harg and the Gran Fury llective. ESTIMATE: £3, 000–5, the ol gaze of Andy Warhol, meanwhile, the cliched hyper-masculy of gay p-ups was gently ironised: his starkly-l, tightly-cropped Body Builr of 1982 is absurdly out of proportn, an afont to classil ials of manly 21st century has seen a growg acceptance of homosexualy, but only up to a pot.

Artists ntue to challenge those who would ny their right to exprs and mentate on their own sexual orientatn, most recently 2010’s "Hi/Seek: Difference and Dire Amerin Portraure” exhibn at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Portra Gallery Washgton DC, which provoked lls for a ngrsnal review of the Smhsonian’s the subject of homoeroticism ntu to make s prence felt the cultural mastream: wns the Brish Mm’s A Ltle Gay History gui, explicly drawg attentn to objects wh homosexual them the llectn. Antoe gay.