100 Years of Photographs of Gay Men Love

Contents:

• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

Captured through the non-nformist spe of the gay male gaze, the soon-to-be-published photobook X is a 10-year photographic culmatn of the multidimensnal male subject. Charl Moriarty spoke wh PROVOKR on his foc of the male subject, notg, "As a gay man, 's hard not to be trigued wh men and their many varied molds -- and 's never jt one thg that I feel drawn to [... “Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Gay Rights,. Bronx-born photographer Alv Baltrop spent days on end documentg gay life at the piers lg Manhattan’s wt si.

Now, his timate imagery, mostly unseen, is fally receivg the attentn serv a new exhibn at the Bronx Mm of the Arts New The Life and Tim of Alv Baltrop, which opened last week, over 200 photos om his overlooked archive shed light on the cy’s gay culture of the 70s. Pier 48 was an abandoned woon stcture where gay men sunbathed, cised and hooked up outsi of the gltery world of dis and Stud Piers (exterr) Photograph: Courty of The Alv Baltrop Tst“He documented a place where people uld go to hook up and have sex a public space, ” said Bsa. “He took them wh the eye of a gay or bisexual man actg out on his sir, ” said returned to New York to study art om 1973 to 1975, which led him to documentg the gay muny the Wt Village and along the piers om 1975 to 1986.

”Marsha P Johnson by Alv Baltrop Photograph: Courty of The Alv Baltrop TstHe only had a few exhibns his life, one at a gay nightclub. “He had a lot of trouble to pay his rent, he was a bouncer at a gay club the East Village, he really stggled to survive. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR

Durg his life, gay Nigerian photographer Rotimi Fani-Kayo stggled to fd acceptance. Gag promence the Uned Kgdom and Uned Stat the 1980s, Fani-Kayo tapped to the turbulence of the gay muny – which at the time was facg both the rise of HIV/AIDS and ostracism. Compatrt and gay rights activist Bisi Alimi is no doubt as to what Fani-Kayo left behd.

“His work epomized not jt the realy of beg gay, but of beg a black gay man. In 2014, the photographer received his first major mm retrospective on the ntent, at the Iziko Mm South Ai, the same year the natn’s then-print, Goodluck Jonathan signed to law the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibn) Act, which threatens a 10-year prison sentence on anyone who even wns a gay marriage.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . “Unr the headg ‘Protts, ’ one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg ‘Court Cas, ’ there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office California. -- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar suatns.It's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn."I don't want to feel like I have to thk about anymore," Maxen said the piece published Thursday afternoon.

PNEERG PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY LIFE THE 1960S

Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game 2021.The Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Such a photograph would have been extraordarily rare jt s ago, but now is one of many published the book “Dads, ” a four-year visual archive of gay fatherhood across Ameri that began 2016. “I felt a ltle b lonely as a gay dad – although there are two of – but lonely the sense that all the other fai I knew were straight parents, ” Heynen said a vio ll, explag why he began photographg the seri.

“I also thought was important for (my kids) to see other fai wh gay dads. “For many people, the book will be an troductn to gay fatherhood.

For Heynen, they reprent addnal love and re and help illtrate some of the cisn-makg that, though not exclive to them, all gay fathers mt ntend wh. “Most of the women are Mormon, and Mormons don’t believe gay marriage and gays havg kids. Heynen, as well as the fathers he photographed, hope that the photographs “Dads” will dispel some of the hurtful stereotyp that still lger around gay fatherhood.

Abplanalp never knew when he was younger that fatherhood would be possible for him as gay man. Listen: “Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podst” (2019-ongog).