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BEEFKE: GAY MEN AND THE BODY BETIFUL
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Beefke Photography & the Gay Communy: 1940s to 1960s.
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At the end of the 1950s, photo studs such as Bob Mizer’s fluential Athletic Mol Guild (AMG), the Wtern Photography Guild, and Spartan of Hollywood emerged and gradually dropped the pretense of physil culture or bodybuildg tert to market their photographs (somewhat) more openly to gay nsumers.