Last week saw the lnch of The Ltle Black Gallery's new queer photography magaze BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!. The llectors edn Volume 1 featur the work of ten photographers om ten untri and adds to the growg BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! art platform "to promote queer and gay photography", which now reprents more than 60 photographers om 24 untri cludg…
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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.”
- BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
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.”
There’s no fashn like gay fashn, and we are happy to prove . Out Magaze brgs you the latt gay fashn, worn by the hottt male mols and ptured glor tail by the bt photographers. See the h trends here. * gay fashion photographer *
”The Internatnal Lbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) monors and reports on LGBTQIA+ rights around the world. Four s ago, the photographer Tom Bianchi began pturg the nearly 10, 000 gay men who every summer flocked to their En a specific part of New York’s Fire Island. Matthew Morroc“This photograph serv as the ver of my photo book, Complic, which tells the story of relatnships wh olr gay men New York om 2010 to 2015.
Photograph by Ey Manng“The first gay pri was a rt—not a logo, psule llectn, or rabow Shake Shack l. Photograph by Chris Smh“I remember that some of my earlit self-portras, taken while I was high school and still eply closeted, seemed like the only way that I uld privately exprs and see myself as the gay man that I knew I was.
BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE
Feast your ey on the hottt male mols om all around the world, om Brazil to the U.S. to Italy. Who says we feature a disproportnate number of unrwear mols? Specifilly, gay mols unrwear? OK, well… maybe we do. But then aga, why wouldn't we? * gay fashion photographer *
Legendary LGBTQIA+ photographers such as Cathere Opie, Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Gold and Sunil Gupta paved the ways for reprentatn and historic documentatn for s, providg a solid and substantial foundatn of imag for the new generatn of queer photographers to build is for many a remr of the stggle for acceptance that has been ongog sce the gay rights movements of the 1960s, It memorat the Stonewall Rts of 1969 and has sce bee an ternatnal celebratn of diversy and dividual eedom. She has shot for the lik of Vogue, Elle, Gayletter, i-D, and The New York Tim among others and has tablished herself as one of Ameri's leadg trans photographers. She also adms that wh the Rsian “gay propaganda law” the most important thg is speakg up and g one’s artistic voice to promote tolerance and LGBTQ+ rights: “I do my bt to get volved wh the kds of projects and spread the rmatn to as wi of an dience as we n.
There's nothg like a good gay photo. You n hardly turn around a gallery whout bumpg to a photo that was eher snapped by a queer person or one for a subject: om Calyn Jenner's portra by Annie Leibovz to the provotive works of Robert Mapplethorpe to the geni of Andy Warhol, Cathere Opie, and Pierre and Gill. Maybe there's somethg queer about the photograph, the transformatn om a subject to an object a flash. Or maybe all our years of takg selfi for Grdr prepared for the job. In any se, what mak the gay photo gay is the look levels at the viewer: We are ed to beg seen, but now we n look back. * gay fashion photographer *
"Around three years ago, I was workg on the layout of a book about physique photography wh photos om the 1950s, whose athetics and visual worlds were clearly tend to appeal to a gay dience.
In the urse of this work, I asked myself: what would a book wh ntemporary gay and queer photography look like? "Around that time, I beme aware of the works of Matt Lambert and Florian Hetz, and I started to look for other gay and queer photographers.
Immediately after the Stonewall rts, 1969, photographer Anthony Friedk began documentg LGBT life his groundbreakg Gay Essay, now on exhib at the Young Mm. In the s sce, photographers have ntued to explore and expand the meang of queer inty. Works by the 12 artists this album illumate them om those turbulent years. * gay fashion photographer *
Indulgg their sire for self-prentatn, affirmatn, and reflectn, many photographers portray male homosexualy particular as a private idyll.