'I've always wanted to be a dad': Photo book celebrat gay fatherhood

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

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. * photo book gay *

Duane Michals’s photographs-wh-text are sgle narrative imag that assert the ndns of hibed homosexual sire wh lyricism, joy, and melancholy, echog the feelg and attu of the poems. Fairly newly out, I didn’t know Lyn then, but as I leafed through the book on the newly published table at the lol queer bookstore, I was transported by a long-ad, precly gay artist who seemed to me every b as policized as I yearned to be. But more than that, upon returng home to the privacy of my suburban bedroom, was where I disvered a book the name for what had stirred me: homoeroticism, as the talogue thor, Peter Bunnell, lls .

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

The German anthology Me Schwul Auge | My Gay Eye has published works by over 500 ternatnal artists and thors. * photo book gay *

Here was a celebratn of homosexualy—what an old-fashned word, but somehow ftg for Whe’s exprsn of gay, whe-male mornist sexualy, newly disvered to me and never to be fotten. Two rdboard box of “dty negativ and fad letters” om an tate sale fell to the hands of Jam Garder, a llector of gay photographs and ephemera.

) look at homoerotic cisg London a century ago through the photographs of archect and amatr photographer Monty Glover. Queer wh Class: The First Book of Homocult, MS ED (The Talkg Lbian) Promotns, Manchter, UK, 1992. Lra Guy on Queer wh Class: The First Book of Homocult, MS ED (The Talkg Lbian) Promotns, Manchter, UK, 1992.

VTAGE GAY MAGAZ, INCLUDG ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS

Homocult, self-proclaimed “perverters of culture, ” were a Manchter-based llective prised of workg-class queers who were active the early 1990s. Queer wh Class: The First Book of Homocult pil many of Homocult’s posters to a th paperback volume. As the illegimate offsprg of mechanil reproductn, Homocult eviscerate the breedg ground of pal: the heterosexual fay.

Punk to the end, the first book of Homocult was also the last.

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