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Contents:

• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• VTAGE GAY FICTN
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

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,. Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri.

Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie.

‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man. Louis’ ‘hairdrser to the stars’Watch a clip om the 1945 home movi of gay men at a pool stumbled upon the films the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an tate sale.

”‘I kept my inty separate’Richard Eaton talks about beg a gay man mid-century St. Several people who aren’t the home movi n ttify to what was like to be gay mid-century St. In the '60s, Eaton remembers lookg over his shoulr as he ventured to gay bars like Mart’s, near Unn Statn.

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100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

The only Ain-Amerins the pool party footage are wearg whe uniforms, servg food to the other elaborate gathergs likely were nied to gay men who were not wealthy and whe, Psaczyk said. Betty Neeley said she was never the closet and that her mother even drove her to first gay bar. The hntg imag are nfirmatn that gay men did live and love at a time when no one dared to even speak of same-sex attractn.

Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn. The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974.

VTAGE GAY FICTN

He went on to have a major reer gay male pornography, directg numero award-wng films between 1989 and 2007, such as More of a Man, Flh & Blood, Dream Team, and Schildcrout is Associate Profsor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase.

Larry Gilman plays Brian, the gay bathhoe attendant lookg for love the era of sexual liberatn.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

Lee Barton, reviewg the play for The Advote, lled "funny, sexy, and important, " but wonred whether mastream crics uld "tolerate anythg gay that is so open and healthy. Some crics regard the tour as "homosexploatn, " but the Philalphia Enquirer lled "somethg of an event the history of gay liberatn... Assertg as do not the sickns but the validy of homosexual affectn and homoerotic appeal.

One San Francis review praised Tubstrip as an exemplar of gay liberatn, remarkg, "When is the last time you walked out of a play or film about gays and felt good?

Take a Look Back at 1980s Gay New York.

Photographer Tom Bianchi is well known for his sun drenched 1980s Polaroids of the gay mec, Fire Island.