Immediately after the Stonewall rts, 1969, photographer Anthony Friedk began documentg LGBT life his groundbreakg Gay Essay, now on exhib at the Young Mm. In the s sce, photographers have ntued to explore and expand the meang of queer inty. Works by the 12 artists this album illumate them om those turbulent years.
Contents:
- [PORTRA OF ERIC GAY, PULZER PRIZE FALIST]
- STORYTELLERS: ERIC GAY ('90)
- ERIC GAY / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
- ERIC GAY - PHOTOGRAPHE PAR PASSION
- ERIC GAY PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTNS
- ERIC GAY ART PHOTOGRAPHY
[PORTRA OF ERIC GAY, PULZER PRIZE FALIST]
Photograph of photo-journalist, Eric Gay. Gay is an UNT Alumni, who 2006 was a Falist for the Pulzer Prize. Gay attend A Century of Excellence event, The Pulzer Priz and Journalism’s Impact at UNT. In the portra Gay is seen wearg a medal around his neck that reads, "Mayborn School of Journalism. Universy of North Texas." * eric gay photographer *
[Portra of Eric Gay, Pulzer Prize Falist].
[Portra of Eric Gay, Pulzer Prize Falist],. As he walked the streets of New Orleans the days after Hurrine Katra, Associated Prs photographer Eric Gay relied on what he had learned his journalism ethics class at North Texas cidg whether or not to shoot a photo.
Gay’s pellg photos of dividuals impacted by Katra — cludg an elrly woman huddled an Amerin flag, people wag spair for evacuatn b outsi the nventn center, and survivors scramblg for food and water dropped om a ary helipter — were not only nomated for a Pulzer Prize for breakg news photography, but also received an award om the Natnal Prs Photographers Associatn the tegory of Bt Natural Disaster Picture Story. Gay first began shootg photos high school, when he was a py clerk for his hometown newspaper, the Wa Tribune-Herald.
STORYTELLERS: ERIC GAY ('90)
As he walked the streets of New Orleans the days after Hurrine Katra, Associated Prs photographer Eric Gay relied on what he had learned his journalism ethics class at North Texas cidg whether or not to shoot a photo. “I learned Dr. (Richard) Wells’ (’65, ’75 M.J.) class to not assume anythg. Jt as you mt have your facts straight when you wre a * eric gay photographer *
Gay also worked full time for the Associated Prs Dallas bure before graduatn, stayg ne years before he moved to the AP bure San Anton. In addn to his Hurrine Katra photos, Gay lists his most memorable photos as those he shot durg Gee W.
ERIC GAY / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
* eric gay photographer *
AP photos/Eric Gay:. It is not entirely happenstance that the foundg figure of the morn gay movement, Harvey Milk, was a photographer and the owner of a mera store.
ERIC GAY - PHOTOGRAPHE PAR PASSION
At my current age of 55, I still remember the embarrassg stg of a film store’s refal to procs pictur of my 23rd (very gay) birthday party bee the prter emed the imag “cent. Anthony Friedk’s photographs -- pecially his Gay Essay (1969-1973), now on exhib at the Young Mm a show timed for the 45th anniversary of the Stonewall rts -- assume exactly such a sympathetic stance. In the years immediately after Stonewall, pictur of ordary gay people leadg ordary liv were nothg short of extraordary.
Mastreamg the homoerotic gaze: Herb Rts, "Fred wh Tir, Hollywood" (tail) 1984 c.
ERIC GAY PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTNS
The onslght of AIDS the early 1980s shifted the parameters of gay male photographic possibily. The betiful male body, once a source of unabashed pri for gay photographers, was now tged wh sadns and even ma to a vector of fectn by those hostile to gay rights. His gaze was, at the time, the most homoerotic to date mastream fashn and advertisg, yet the prospect of actual sex is excised.
ERIC GAY ART PHOTOGRAPHY
In his more aggrsively homoerotic photos, we see an array of fac and bodi that are hardly mol betiful. In the years sce Friedk’s Gay Essay, the mere assertn of gay prence has been supersed by a photographic exploratn to what that prence actually means.
Katz is the print and chief curator of the new Llie Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, New York Cy, and directs the doctoral program Visual Studi at the Universy at Buffalo. Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn. The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role.