A new book of photographs memorialis the excement, humour, timacy – and lurkg peril – on the streets San Francis and New York where the gay muny thrived
Contents:
- NICHOLAS HATON TALKS ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY AND ADVERTISG HIS ORIENTATN
- ‘I FEEL LOVE’: NICHOLAS BLAIR’S IMAG OF GAY JOY AND FIANCE 80S AMERI
NICHOLAS HATON TALKS ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY AND ADVERTISG HIS ORIENTATN
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An openly gay actor, Haton has always intified as a member of the LGBTIQ+ terviewer asked what was like to embrace his orientatn ont of his parents and the public eye. The iendly muny eased his path to embody his te urty of his supportive parents — father Craig Haton and mother Vicki Atks — beg gay for him was jt as normal as beg straight. That's why he has never bothered to e out as gay publicly or make his story sound somethg knows that a simple search on the ter satisfi the cursy of his followers.
‘I FEEL LOVE’: NICHOLAS BLAIR’S IMAG OF GAY JOY AND FIANCE 80S AMERI
When Nicholas Blair first showed me his photographs for the book Castro to Christopher: Gay Streets of Ameri 1979-1986, I had many thoughts. While Gay Pri march would brg tens of thoands of to the streets every year, on all other days our footprt was relatively small, sular and every b as se-specific as the tle of Blair’s book suggts.
In the era of the photos, nearly everythg that was monly nsired “gay” eher happened on the streets or was nnected to them. Back then, the gay world still had the thrill of outlaw culture, though, sadly, that me wh the nsequence of makg targets for everythg om cel tnts to life-threateng bashgs.
While was mon to hear the term “faggot” hurled your directn back then, I never heard or read the term “homophobia”. Most people back then didn’t thk there was anythg the least b wrong treatg gay people wh revulsn. The era of the photos gas even more poignancy sce straddl the time jt before Aids and the years when the disease threatened to wipe out gay people entirely.