100 Years of Photographs of Gay Men Love

Contents:

• GAY CYCLG LOVER
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• 18 GAY BOY

GAY CYCLG LOVER

Gay Cyclg Lover. gay lycra.

I was 11 when people started llg me gay.

Beg labeled the “gay kid, ” sixth gra ma me a social pariah.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

A few guys my middle school thought I was too gay to like punk. My first clatn was to not tell anyone bee I knew would e to light that I was beg harassed for beg perceived to be gay. Even though I still had no ia I was gay — my sire for other boys phed towards the back of my bra — I felt a ep shame for people thkg I was gay.

How uld I expla to my mom that the kids at school for over a year and a half had lled me gay? How uld I expla to her that I wasn’t gay even though everyone thought I was? “You’re gay?

Y, I was the gay kid. I’ve been an out and proud homosexual sce I was 14, but at 29 years old, I still stggle wh shame. In orr to heal om growg up a homophobic world, I ve you to ask yourself: what is somethg you want but are too aaid to name?

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

That Moment A Lonely Gay Brown Boy Learns He Can Be Loved, Too. Stereotyp of gay men and anthetil stereotyp of Lato men have ma me untelligible to a world that ignor and silenc the stggl of my muni. Internalizg society’s fear and abhorrence towards gayns and Latidad, I learned how to hate myself.

Whout mols of gay brown men beg vulnerable — let alone existg — I was nvced that the only pany I would ever really have was the empts si me. As gay people, I thk we feel extremely sensive ourselv and we all have our stggl that are dividual to our personal experienc. Summer Diary Project and Art Gaysel.

The Summer Diary Project is a curated llectn of male photography, queer art, and gay pop culture that's told a daily narrative by s founr and creative director Billy Mec. This November, Summer Diary has jt opened Summer Outpost - s onle shop and art gallery, sellg origal patgs, exclive prts, digal magaz, and their new lendar for more at, Instagram,, December 5th, Summer Diary heads om s Jersey Shore home to South Beach to exhib at "the gayt fair at Miami Art Week" -- the Art Gaysel show at Hotel Gaytherg.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

"Alex Guerra, Art Gaysel's founr & curator, reached out to me on Instagram to e down this year and show" says Billy. "I uldn't be more lighted and honored to be a part of this diverse talented group of gay artists Alex has put together. "Now s 4th year, Gaytherg's Art Gaysel event hosts over 30 gay artists.

"If you're to llectg queer art and havg a good time" says Billy, "this mt be the place for you to be Miami Beach evengs durg Art Basel" Diary will be showg select works om "The Sun Bathers", their current onle show of origal patgs by Richard Stabbert, "Men In Nature", an exclive & very limed edn of prts by SDP ntributg photographer Ron Amato (clud here this gallery), and "Somewhere Over The Rabow", one-of-a-kd hand pated vtage postrds by Nolan Gaysel ns om December 5 - 9, 2018.

Hotel Gaytherg, 1409 Lln Road, South Beach.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

Im like a rebel krsna ( a iend said) s´ Im a ms, I eat meet, Im gay, sex addict, hehe well maybe we n said that I beleve Lord Krsna but I dont follow the relign! Im Gay!!! 18 Gay Boy.

18 GAY BOY

|| No hate:) Only GAYS. Sure, I’d heard the agent’s name before, primarily nnectn wh his most famo client, Rock Hudson – that Henry Willson’s secretary was the bri chosen for Hudson durg his brief marriage to unter the rampant gay mors that were swirlg about him Hollywood as he grew to a star the early 50s.

So I cid old Henry served a blog spot all his own Leroy Willson (1911 ~1978) – and y, that’s “Willson” spelled wh two l’s pl, appropriately enough, a “son” add on at the end – was an olr gay man, what today we would ll a notor “chicken hawk” of an old queen, equentg gentlemen’s night clubs along the Sunset Strip bar scene where he wooed younger men for both personal as well as profsnal see, Henry Willson also jt so happened to be the head of talent at David O. Certaly none of the 1950s dreamboat beefke movie star wannab uld rist, those young men who end up wh the tenr attentns of Henry Willson as their agent, cludg his role shapg gay or bisexual actors to ostensibly straight-arrow silver-screen idols.

Such young gay actors were no secret the bs, yet jealoly and zealoly kept unr wraps om the dienc who bought tickets for the fantasy played out on movie screens and fan magaz. A look to the life of Hollywood mogul agent Henry Willson today giv a unique sir glimpse at the dilemmas of his gay clients livg a double life, straight leadg man by day while nductg lively after-hours same-sex affairs and sexual liaison trysts unr the very flashbulbs of the publicy mache which had created their inic statur the first retrospective examatn sh a proverbial spotlight on the hidn soccultural history of the Amerin movie stud system through the late 1950s, which self began to pture the 1960s wh the sexual revolutn as “outg” beme a natnal passtime. Even at that time, for a gay actor to e out of the closet was ak to mtg reer hara-kiri, not to mentn that was prosecutable to boot (not jt among actors, of urse).