'100 Years of Men Love': New film unearths old stori of gay romance

Contents:

• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S
• '100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE
• 17 INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MEN IN LOVE FROM THE 1850S TO 1950S WHEN BEG GAY WAS ILLEGAL
• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
• SEARCH FOR A GAY UPLE WHO GOT MARRIED THE 1950S BUT NEVER GOT THEIR PHOTOS
• GAY PRI THE 1950S: THE PHOTO BOOTH AS A SAFE SPACE

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

One such muny was Cherry Grove, which is the subject of an exhibn at the New-York Historil Society tled Safe/Haven: Gay Life 1950s Cherry Grove.

As a trans woman, I fely felt like I was not prent Cherry Grove at that time, but gay men and women were there, rvg out space that I get to hab today. Soon the “theater people” would start to formulate a strong muny where people were able to be openly gay; they uld cross-drs and play wh genr mak the photos so wonrful is that they are very rare.

A GLIMPSE OF GAY PRI THE 1950S

Simply havg photos veloped that reflected homosexualy uld get you arrted. We have a lot of lost history that was thrown away, so the photos om the archiv add so much to our knowledge of what gay life was like. The people are iendly, and we have always been on the ont of LGBTQ+ rights and fightg for eedom to be out and the 1950s, there was no nng water and no electricy, but gay men and women were happy to be roughg bee they were ee to be themselv.

If you were gay the cy, you went to the dark and dgy bars, which were n by the Mafia, and at any time uld be raid by the police and you uld be Cherry Grove, the police would leave on the last ferry to the maland at midnight, allowg same-sex dancg and open exprsns of affectn to occur the lol bars and rtrants. Each year, thoands of people e together to drs up and celebrate Inpennce Day the gayt way possible … wh hundreds of drag queens on a ferry returng to the P to keep the tradn gog.

When muny members Cherry Grove would pass away, their straight fay members would clean out their ho to sell bee they did not want to live a “gay town. The fay members often threw out any evince of their gay uncl or s.

'100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE

When we saw the photos om Seeley's llectn, we saw that was addg somethg to the lexin of gay life. Whenever people show somethg a documentary or a book, most of the photos of gay life start at Stonewall and go on om there. We feel lucky that the NYHS saw the value gay history, bee not everyone the Stonewall Mm, most of the patrons are queer.

17 INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MEN IN LOVE FROM THE 1850S TO 1950S WHEN BEG GAY WAS ILLEGAL

“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s.

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‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

ONE Natnal Gay & Lbian Archiv at the Universy of Southern California Librari, the largt reposory of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer materials the world, shared a heartwarmg uple of photos wh Time of two gay men showg affectn a photo booth durg the early 1950s honor of LGBT Pri public displays of affectn by same-sex upl are monplace today, the fact that this picture was taken 1953 - a time when LGBT people uld be arrted for simply holdg hands wh someone of the same sex - mak a powerful and betiful image monstratg the spir of LGBT Pri. A new documentary based on a vast llectn of old photos featurg gay men love gog back to the mid-1800s has ma s televisn but. Ni and Treadwell began their llectn 22 years ago when the uple stumbled upon a rare, century-old photo of a gay uple an antique shop.

Sce then, the men have been llectg thoands of imag of gay men datg that go back 170 years. Laws crimalizg gay sex. And even today, homosexualy is crimalized approximately 70 untri.

A historic image gallery showg gay upl om the days when beg gay was lerally a crime worldwi is displayed the new book "Lovg: A Photographic History of Men Love, 1850s-1950s. " The work of Hugh Ni and Neal Treadwell featur a llectn of historil imag of gay upl that they both llected throughout their liv. It was the first time that they had ntact wh a photograph so old - datg om 1920 - wh such an openly gay sAnd so began a trip that would take two s.

SEARCH FOR A GAY UPLE WHO GOT MARRIED THE 1950S BUT NEVER GOT THEIR PHOTOS

Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri. Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie.

” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man. Louis’ ‘hairdrser to the stars’Watch a clip om the 1945 home movi of gay men at a pool stumbled upon the films the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an tate sale.

GAY PRI THE 1950S: THE PHOTO BOOTH AS A SAFE SPACE

”‘I kept my inty separate’Richard Eaton talks about beg a gay man mid-century St. Several people who aren’t the home movi n ttify to what was like to be gay mid-century St.

In the '60s, Eaton remembers lookg over his shoulr as he ventured to gay bars like Mart’s, near Unn Statn. Gay life, like all life St. The only Ain-Amerins the pool party footage are wearg whe uniforms, servg food to the other elaborate gathergs likely were nied to gay men who were not wealthy and whe, Psaczyk said.

Betty Neeley said she was never the closet and that her mother even drove her to first gay bar. The hntg imag are nfirmatn that gay men did live and love at a time when no one dared to even speak of same-sex attractn.