13 Vtage Gay Photos Taken at the Dawn of Photography

Contents:

• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

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.

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NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

Author and historian Owen Keehnen said the loss of Man's Country was "a gay versn of seeg the hoe you grew up torn down. A place of sexual liberatn, social ease wh beg gay and muny buildg. The Victorian Era marked a huge shift the treatment of homosexualy.

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