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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. 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.
The Victorian Era marked a huge shift the treatment of homosexualy. The Brish had been plete nial about the prence of homosexualy wh their untry. Durg the 19th century the silence England was broken, and police began actively fightg the "problem" of homosexualy.
However, the laws were selectively applied and th were not a great threat to gay men, as long as they were discreet and avoid sndal. Gay men were monly seen by society as perverts who had chosen their sexualy, or as diseased dividuals whose sexualy was ed by their upbrgg and blogy, and not somethg they were born wh. Doctors and psychologists, believg that homosexualy uld be cured, tried methods such as hypnosis and aversn therapy.