Free Onle Library: Herb Rts: a life foc: the celebri he photographed so flawlsly remember the warmth of the iend they knew. (culture).(Obuary) by "The Advote (The natnal gay & lbian newsmagaze)"; News, opn and mentary Photographers Appreciatn Bgraphy
Contents:
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- BOY CULTURE : COVERG HOT MEN, GAY ISSU, CELEBRI, MOVI, MIC & MORE
- ON THIS GAY DAY: REMEMBERG SIR NIGEL HAWTHORNE AND HERB RTS
- BOY CULTURE : COVERG HOT MEN, GAY ISSU, CELEBRI, MOVI, MIC & MORE
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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' The New York Tim, CNN, The Los Angel Tim, the Associated Prs ( a story that ran Newsday and many other papers) and other media anizatns quoted Rts' publicist, also intified as a iend, who ed that term to scribe what brought the openly gay photographer's life to an end at the age of 50. Soon enough was revealed the gay prs (and sce has only appeared a few gossip lumns) that Rts had fact been HIV-posive for years.
The Advote, the natnal gay and lbian newsmagaze, however, did ask.
BOY CULTURE : COVERG HOT MEN, GAY ISSU, CELEBRI, MOVI, MIC & MORE
' That statement perhaps prompted the Washgton Bla, the gay weekly the natn's pal, to rightly n wh the headle, 'Gay photographer Herb Rts succumbs to AIDS. It's nice to know that small pockets of the gay muny might now have the full story.
But the fact remas: Millns of Amerins, gay and straight, still haven't a clue about what took the life of the celebry photographer who was himself a big supporter of AIDS .
It's also a tragic omissn at a time when study after study shows unsafe sex and new fectns ntug to rise steeply among younger generatns of gay men, often bee the reali of AIDS are abstract to them—enough to allow them to take foolish risks. Most young gay men also have not watched their own iends die, as was the se for gay men of prev generatns.
ON THIS GAY DAY: REMEMBERG SIR NIGEL HAWTHORNE AND HERB RTS
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"I n't remember whether I told him to put his arms over his head or whether I jt clicked when he stretched, " Rts said of his impromptu mol, who, wh a year, was a followg year, he blagged his way on to the set of The Champ, and ught a fast shot of John Voight which ma to sued the emergg taste of the time, the gay-spired, high-ncept Hollywood and fashn culture that venerated the perfect body and the celebro face. Ever thoughtful, he sent them pi of the $50 volume, and told iends that s elegant lns killg a gazelle - she might be a supermol wearg an Armani pelt - was photographed at a waterg hole, where he was close enough to hear her cnchg the had told his parents he was gay at llege, long before such an announcement was acceptable. INDIEWIRE: Check out Q-Force, Netflix's gay-superhero animated seri starrg Sean Hay.