33 Portras of Gay Men Isolatn

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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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HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV

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. * the gay photographer *

Jewbilee 2019: 110 Pics of Gays Lightg the Man-orah. Over 1, 000 gay Jews and bagel-chasers me out to celebrate the third night of Hankah at Hebro's annual Christmas Eve Jewbilee. Gay Eroticism and Body Issu Explored This New Photo Collectn.

The German anthology Me Schwul Auge | My Gay Eye has published works by over 500 ternatnal artists and thors. Captured through the non-nformist spe of the gay male gaze, the soon-to-be-published photobook X is a 10-year photographic culmatn of the multidimensnal male subject. Charl Moriarty spoke wh PROVOKR on his foc of the male subject, notg, "As a gay man, 's hard not to be trigued wh men and their many varied molds -- and 's never jt one thg that I feel drawn to [...

"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.

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! LNCH QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY MAGAZE

Indulgg their sire for self-prentatn, affirmatn, and reflectn, many photographers portray male homosexualy particular as a private idyll. However, a number of documentary photographers provi evince that beg gay or lbian n still lead to margalizatn, isolatn, stigmatizatn, and vlence certa untri and muni.

"Particular Voic" is an extraordary visual rerd of the flowerg of queer voic the wake of Stonewall and the AIDS crisis, while also payg homage to many earlier 20th Century activists and wrers who had urged the creatn of a muny inty, or otherwise gave public voice to gay and lbian sensibili.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* THE GAY PHOTOGRAPHER

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