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.
Contents:
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
- GAY PICTUR
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
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. * pictures of the gay *
Jewbilee 2019: 110 Pics of Gays Lightg the Man-orah.
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
Gay pictur n be anythg, om portras of LGBT celebs to snapshots om the latt prott. No matter where they’re om, gay pictur help document the LGBT world, pturg the lived experienc of queer people imag that last forever. * pictures of the gay *
Over 1, 000 gay Jews and bagel-chasers me out to celebrate the third night of Hankah at Hebro's annual Christmas Eve Jewbilee.
Gay Eroticism and Body Issu Explored This New Photo Collectn. The German anthology Me Schwul Auge | My Gay Eye has published works by over 500 ternatnal artists and thors. Amid the flurry of rabow-lan rporate logos, sponsored events and news ems about gay pengus, is difficult to turn on a televisn or set foot public durg June whout the remr that is Pri Month for LGBT and queer people.
GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)
Gee Dudley, a photographer and artist who also served as the first director of New York Cy’s Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, documented scen om pri paras New York Cy om the late 1970s through the early ‘90s. The years saw Ana Bryant’s homophobic csa through the “Save Our Children” mpaign 1977, the electn and assassatn of Harvey Milk 1978, and the Whe Night rts the followg summer after the lenient sentencg of Milk’s murrer, Dan Whe. And October 1979, the Natnal March on Washgton for Gay and Lbian Rights took place wh roughly 100, 000 participants.
“It was, a sense, the year we buted on the larger public stage, ” says Jim Saslow, a profsor of art history at the Cy Universy of New York and an early gay activist. “We were beg acceptable enough that a gay person uld have a signifint polil reer, but we also beme very aware of how much of a nerve that was touchg for nservative people. Saslow, who was also a iend of Dudley’s, marks this era as a shift the gay liberatn movement.
But as the number of out gay people grew, says Saslow, the paras transned om timate gathergs of like-md people to events attend by a broar array of participants.
GAY PICTUR
“The muny started to attract more mastream folks who weren’t necsarily polilly radil or untercultural — they jt happened to be gay. “The guy a drs wh a beard, nng ont of the task force banner, ptur a lot of the atmosphere of the early gay liberatn muny, bee so much of me out of the hippie movement, ” says Saslow.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Members of the Natnal Gay Task Force march 1981. Partners Charl Llie and Frz Lohman began to exhib art by gay artists their SoHo loft 1969, the same year the Stonewall uprisg took place. “There weren’t that many people documentg the gay world at that time, so Gee’s photographs have an enormo importance, ” says Saslow.