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Contents:
- HE CAPTURED A CLANSTE GAY CULTURE AMID THE DERELICT PIERS
- A LOST UTOPIA: STANLEY STELLAR’S PORTRAS AT NEW YORK’S “GAY PIERS”
- LIFE FOR HOMELS GAY AND TRANS TEENS NEW YORK CY
HE CAPTURED A CLANSTE GAY CULTURE AMID THE DERELICT PIERS
Ahead of a new exhibn at Kapp Kapp gallery, photographer Stanley Stellar remisc about gay life at the much-mythologised New York piers the 70s and 80s * the piers new york gay *
At the same time, the fight for the rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people, spurred by the 1969 Stonewall rts, was lerally transformg the cultural and social landspe of New York Cy.
A LOST UTOPIA: STANLEY STELLAR’S PORTRAS AT NEW YORK’S “GAY PIERS”
* the piers new york gay *
Gay men sudnly felt ee to sunbathe on the piers naked, cise, and have sex public.
While artists llaborated to transform the buildgs of Pier 34 to makhift art studs and exhibn spac, gay men were nvertg Pier 46 to what Delmas Howe lls an "arena for sexual theater.
LIFE FOR HOMELS GAY AND TRANS TEENS NEW YORK CY
Twenty percent of Ameri's homels youth are gay or trans. * the piers new york gay *
He is thor of Male Dire: The Homoerotic Amerin Art and Ambn and Love Morn Amerin Art, and edor wh Alejandro Anrs and Diana Ln of The Social and the Real, also published by PSU Prs. By the 1960s, the massive piers along Manhattan’s Hudson River wateront that projected to the water stood largely abandoned and easily accsible om Greenwich Village, which gay men were begng to take over. In the ’70s and ’80s, the piers beme a popular spot for gay men to sunbathe naked beneath huge murals by artists like Gtav “Tava” Von Will.
What this space lacked fort and ameni for timate liaisons, ma up for by providg the anonymy gay men required at the time to survive.