Ahead of a new exhibn at Kapp Kapp gallery, photographer Stanley Stellar remisc about gay life at the much-mythologised New York piers the 70s and 80s
Contents:
- A LOST UTOPIA: STANLEY STELLAR’S PORTRAS AT NEW YORK’S “GAY PIERS”
- HE CAPTURED A CLANSTE GAY CULTURE AMID THE DERELICT PIERS
A LOST UTOPIA: STANLEY STELLAR’S PORTRAS AT NEW YORK’S “GAY PIERS”
* gay piers *
By the 1960s, the massive piers along Manhattan’s Hudson River wateront that projected to the water stood largely abandoned and easily accsible om Greenwich Village, which gay men were begng to take over.
HE CAPTURED A CLANSTE GAY CULTURE AMID THE DERELICT PIERS
In the ’70s and ’80s, the piers beme a popular spot for gay men to sunbathe naked beneath huge murals by artists like Gtav “Tava” Von Will. What this space lacked fort and ameni for timate liaisons, ma up for by providg the anonymy gay men required at the time to survive.