Bt Gay Photography

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• CELEBRY FASHN PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ TURNS HIS FOC TO THE GAY LEATHER COMMUNY SAVAS ABADSIDIS FEBARY 13, 2022SHARE NEW JERSEY BASED PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ, WHO HAS BEEN FEATURED ON AMERI’S AND CANADA’S NEXT TOP MOL, RUPL’S DRAG RACE, ALONG WH DOZENS OF OTHER TELEVISN APPEARANC, HAS STARTED AN ONGOG SERI TO HIGHLIGHT THE BETY AND DIVERSY OF THE LEATHER MUNY TO SHOW THAT ’S NOT ABOUT JT WEARG LEATHER OR KKY SEX.THE ONGOG SERI’ GOAL IS TO SHE MORE LIGHT ON A COMMUNY THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO LGBTQ HISTORY     LEATHER IS AN OUTER MANIFTATN OF AN NER TTH. WE AREN’T LEATHERMEN BEE WE WEAR LEATHER; WE WEAR LEATHER BEE WE ARE ALREADY LEATHERMEN. WE JT WANT OTHERS TO SEE SO THEY N KNOW TOO. EDGEACRDG TO RUIZ: “IT’S ABOUT A MUNY OF MEN WHO FORM A VERY STRONG BROTHERHOOD WH A RICH HISTORY ROOTED MUNY SERVICE AND CLN DATG BACK TO THE 60S. THE MORE I LEARNED, THE MORE I WANTED TO KNOW. I FIGURED THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN ACCURATE ACUNT WAS TO GO TO THE SOURC.”
• THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
• BT GAY PHOTOGRAPHY

CELEBRY FASHN PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ TURNS HIS FOC TO THE GAY LEATHER COMMUNY SAVAS ABADSIDIS FEBARY 13, 2022SHARE NEW JERSEY BASED PHOTOGRAPHER MIKE RUIZ, WHO HAS BEEN FEATURED ON AMERI’S AND CANADA’S NEXT TOP MOL, RUPL’S DRAG RACE, ALONG WH DOZENS OF OTHER TELEVISN APPEARANC, HAS STARTED AN ONGOG SERI TO HIGHLIGHT THE BETY AND DIVERSY OF THE LEATHER MUNY TO SHOW THAT ’S NOT ABOUT JT WEARG LEATHER OR KKY SEX.THE ONGOG SERI’ GOAL IS TO SHE MORE LIGHT ON A COMMUNY THAT HAS CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO LGBTQ HISTORY     LEATHER IS AN OUTER MANIFTATN OF AN NER TTH. WE AREN’T LEATHERMEN BEE WE WEAR LEATHER; WE WEAR LEATHER BEE WE ARE ALREADY LEATHERMEN. WE JT WANT OTHERS TO SEE SO THEY N KNOW TOO. EDGEACRDG TO RUIZ: “IT’S ABOUT A MUNY OF MEN WHO FORM A VERY STRONG BROTHERHOOD WH A RICH HISTORY ROOTED MUNY SERVICE AND CLN DATG BACK TO THE 60S. THE MORE I LEARNED, THE MORE I WANTED TO KNOW. I FIGURED THE ONLY WAY TO GET AN ACCURATE ACUNT WAS TO GO TO THE SOURC.”

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THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE

His homoerotic fluenc g the black male body n be terpreted as an exprsn of ialisatn, of sire and beg sired, and self-nscns rponse to the black body beg rced to a spectacle. Gottschalk’s personal archive was unearthed for an exhibn at The Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art New York 2019, where many of the poignant imag were shown for the first time.

Threats and abe after closg time were mon – but was a space of their 1967, Gottschalk beme volved wh the Gay Liberatn Front, a liberatn anisatn fightg for gay rights. Tillmans was nsired the “documentarian of his generatn, pecially that of the London club and gay scen” (though he has said, “It was never my tentn to be seen as diaristic or tobgraphil. While Simon’s tramark oversized silhouett are prent, ’s the bold black and whe photographic prts adorng each garment that have everybody are imag om famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, a man who is monly known for his graphic reprentatn of the unrground New York gay and fetish scen of the 1970s and ’80s.

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Inially tryg to supprs his homosexualy for fear of rejectn om his nservative fay, he fally embraced and found himself drawn towards the unrground gay scene New York. He ed classic portraure techniqu to pict homoerotic and sadomasochistic acts an artistic way, treatg the subject matter wh a ft skillfulns, as if were a still clud men uratg to each other’s mouths, male and female nudy, bber, chas and bondage gear. The were ntroversial subjects, pecially the ’70s and ’80s where homosexualy and extreme sex acts were met wh even ls acceptance than they are today.

It helped to tablish his notoriety as a proment photographer who was not aaid to e the medium to show the world somethg they had never seen Subject MatterAlthough wily known for his homoerotic imag, Mapplethorpe has a varied and wi-rangg portfol. "Shockg the public orr to sensize them to gay issu was one of Mapplethorpe's primary goals, " she issue of obsceny, and what should be judged as "offensive, " was felt acutely  the summer of 1989, shortly before Mapplethorpe's ath om plitns wh HIV/AIDS. He wanted to give a voice and face to a maligned group, who were shunned, ridiculed and lled immoral for a liftyle that ed outsirs no Simon’s love of Mapplethorpe n't be lled to qutn, prtg an erect penis on a garment (even wh the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundatn’s explic blsg) has engenred a predictable reactn; but the subtle meang and nuanced observatn Mapplethorpe jected to his imag may have been lost, and the stggle to reprent New York’s gay scene Shock Is the MsageThe graphic nature of Mapplethorpe’s photography will always brg accatns that his work was merely ed to shock.

There was a lot of social upheaval durg his perd of work, pecially New York, and people of lor and gay muni were often treated as ferr.