Hundreds of photographs om the 19th and 20th centuri offer a glimpse at the life of gay men durg a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
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100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
Man's Country, Chigo's olst gay bathhoe, closed forever on New Year's Day 2018. Here's a last look si s hallowed halls. * retro gay photo *
Take a Look Back at 1980s Gay New York. Photographer Tom Bianchi is well known for his sun drenched 1980s Polaroids of the gay mec, Fire Island.
* retro gay photo *
But, the same years Bianchi was potg his lens at beachgoers for his Fire Island P seri, he was also chroniclg gay life Manhattan om his Greenwich Village rince. Chigo's olst gay bathhoe closed forever on New Year's Day 2018. EtienneChigo lost a piece of gay history 2018, when Man's Country, the cy's olst bathhoe, closed s doors after 44 years.
Author and historian Owen Keehnen said the loss of Man's Country was "a gay versn of seeg the hoe you grew up torn down. A place of sexual liberatn, social ease wh beg gay and muny buildg.
Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn.