Joseph Altuzarra is a risg French fashn signer who is gay. He is married to Seth Jordan Weissman. The pair got married October 2014. The pair has a child together. His worth is reported to be between $1.5 ln.
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- JOSEPH ALTUZARRA’S ALTU IS TELLG GAY STORI, STARTG BY COLLABORATG WH THE PHOTOGRAPHER ALV BALTROP’S ESTATE
- CELEBRATG OUR FAVORE GAY CELEBRY WEDDGS
JOSEPH ALTUZARRA’S ALTU IS TELLG GAY STORI, STARTG BY COLLABORATG WH THE PHOTOGRAPHER ALV BALTROP’S ESTATE
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Talkg about Joseph Altuzarra’s sexualy, he is gay. Today, he’s lnchg the label’s first llaboratn partnership wh the tate of Alv Baltrop, the late Bronx-born photographer who spent the ’70s and ’80s photographg the pre-AIDS epimic life of the gay muny the piers on the Hudson River lower Manhattan. “What we’re seeg om ctomers is that they’re skewg more cis male”—gay men, that is—“so basilly me, ” he adds wh a lgh.
This is where Altuzarra aptly acknowledg the subtle but important nuanc between gay culture (which foc on the experienc of often cis, gay men), and queer culture (which clus everyone unr the LGBTQ+ umbrella, but most importantly trans and genr nonnfirmg people). “I began to thk of Altu as a reflectn of queer culture, but more specifilly gay culture, ” he says.
It mak sense then, that Altu’s first llaboratn featur a chapter of queer history so signifint to male gayns.
CELEBRATG OUR FAVORE GAY CELEBRY WEDDGS
The scen are trsic to the gay sex and cisg culture of the time, and while their tenrns and raw sensualy and eroticism are evint to most, they are specifilly poignant to gay and queer folks. Altuzarra is a llector of gay art, some of his favore artists beg Tom of Fland, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salman Toor, and Peter Hujar. “He is such a wonrful documentarian of a specific time durg which beg gay was really radil, ” Altuzarra said of the photographer’s work.
“What is special about his work is that, to me, ’s really about love and timacy, and the fact that gay men had to go to the g of the cy to look for love and real nnectn, to fd moments of tenrns and timacy and sex. Dpe more acceptance, Grdr, Scff, and other apps are prevalent the gay muny, as is cisg.