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Contents:
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
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"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.
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
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. Spencer Grant via Getty ImagView of the large crowd, some of whom are holdg up handma signs and banners, participatg a gay and lbian Pri para the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, 1970.
(Photo by Spencer Grant/Getty Imag)Harold Adler/Unrwood Archiv via Getty ImagA participant at a gay Pri gatherg Goln Gate Park, San Francis, California, cir Imag via Getty ImagA group, led by several people rryg an 'It's Time!
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Natnal Gay Task Force' banner, march up Sixth Avenue durg the annual Gay Pri para New York Cy, June 29, 1975. Allan Tannenbm via Getty ImagCoupl embrace and kiss Central Park after a gay Pri para, New York, New York, June 26, Alpert via Getty ImagA gay rights protter drag wh a banner clarg 'Not Every Boy Dreans Of Beg A Mare' durg a gay rights march up Fifth Avenue to Central Park, New York Archive via Getty ImagA group of men ri a tck at the tersectn of 32nd Street and Fifth Avenue durg the annual gay Pri para New York Cy, cir Prs via Getty ImagGay and lbian Pri para New York Cy, cir 1980. Photofn via Getty ImagA lbian and gay Pri London, Globe via Getty ImagGay Pri para march down Charl Street Boston on June 20, 1981.
Barbara Alper via Getty ImagGay Fathers take part a gay Pri para on the rner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue S New York Cy, June 1982. Barbara Alper via Getty ImagA group of men relax on the street durg the gay Pri para New York Cy, June 1982.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
Barbara Alper via Getty ImagMembers of the Jewish muny jo gay Pri day New York Cy, June 1982. Barbara Alper via Getty ImagTwo women embrace durg the gay Pri para New York Cy, June 1982.