Hundreds of photographs om the 19th and 20th centuri offer a glimpse at the life of gay men durg a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
Contents:
- ‘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
‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri. Home movi pture their easy affectn and reee dancg. But… * vintage gay men *
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. ” 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.
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
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In the '60s, Eaton remembers lookg over his shoulr as he ventured to gay bars like Mart’s, near Unn Statn. Gay life, like all life St.
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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. 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.
But, the same years Bianchi was potg his lens at beachgoers for his Fire Island P seri, he was also chroniclg gay life Manhattan om his Greenwich Village rince. Ever sce the silent film era, Hollywood beefke photos have tillated both female and gay male fans.