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Contents:

• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• GAY MAN STOCK VIOS
• ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

Vcent Keh of MASCULAR Stud and Oliver Zke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the lnch of A Portra Isolatn, a project explorg emotnal and physil space the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global panmic grew spe and impact, gay men around the world were asked to subm self portras that reflected their experience of the ronavis lock-down. The ia behd the llectn was to show that gay men are affected by the crisis a siar way to everyone else but more so. Livg liv which are often agmented between nventnal work ndns and their private liv leav many gay men whout the tradnal support mechanisms of heterosexuals and this shows through the separated by geography, culture and age, the men the imag all share fears for the future, lonels, job secury, and separatn.

GAY MAN STOCK VIOS

MASCULAR is a London-based stud tablished by Vcent Keh that explor elements of gay and male inty through photography. The imag are often ma rponse to and nversatn wh historil artworks and referenc such as the vanas motif, relig patgs, and inic gay artists who shaped my unrstandg of queer self-reprentatn, like Pedro Lemebel, David Wojnarowicz, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Fortunately, alternative events to the official gay Pri are now available: ralli, march, and parti that rever the urgency, ant, and cril spir that our social polics need and serve.

“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

ESTATE AGENT JAILED FOR VIC ATTACK ON TWO GAY MEN HOLDG HANDS

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. The four-part te crime seri, now streamg, foc on four victims, gay men the 1990s, who were murred, dismembered, their remas found garbage bags along a New Jersey highway.

Adapted om an Edgar-wng 2021 book also lled “Last Call” by director Anthony Caronna and producer Howard Gertler, what ultimately emerg is an unsttg portra of the vlence done not jt to a gay quartet but to gays, lbians, trans people general. That mak the climatic urt trial a tense tt se of basic gay civil rights. “What we wanted to do was set the table so people unrstood that 2005, ” Caronna said, “gay marriage wasn’t a thg.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

For gays, 2005 was still a time where somebody uld get off for somethg heo. There was still a lot of homema homophobia wh the jtice system. “Last Call” begs 1970s Florida where former bety queen Ana Bryant ws natnal attentn and enthiastic support by attackg homosexuals as unf parents.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

“Last Call” ends wh current Florida ernor Ron DeSantis echog Bryant wh attacks on trans children, gays and lbians. “One thg we disvered was the homophobia we talk about the ‘90s, Ana Bryant really was the spark for that. Heynen planned to photograph for a book of photography featurg gay fathers and their children.

GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS

”Amerin culture has not been particularly starved of imag of gay fatherhood, particularly recent years. Celebri like Anrson Cooper have helped normalize the ia of gay men raisg children, and no longer feels revelatory to see them on televisn, as did when “Morn Fay” premiered mon, Mr. Heynen said, are imag of gay fathers who aren’t Instagram ready — like two men bg their dghters’ hair or tossg a football the ont yard.

It’s an unrstandable impulse, which he attribut to a sire among gay parents to feel “normal” after havg their pabili as parents ntually lled to qutn. Heynen said, but rather a celebratn of the day-to-day liv of gay Jt for the YoungCly Rose, 61, and Ryan, 12Cly Rose, who liv Manhattan, was first photographed for “Dads” three years ago after meetg Mr. Heynen at an event at the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center New York Cy.