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Contents:
- 'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- GAY PICTUR
- 'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' TEASER NFIRMS LUS GRABEEL'S RYAN EVANS IS GAY WH SAME-SEX KISS
'GAY AMERI': PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN FROM ALL 50 STAT
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. MASCULAR is a London-based stud tablished by Vcent Keh that explor elements of gay and male inty through photography. Began an antigay mpaign attributed to a puranil effort to clean up the cy's streets advance of the 1964 World's Fair.
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
The mpaign closed gay bars by systematilly revokg liquor licens and simultaneoly targeted gay men through entrapment. The mpaign was brought to an end after Mayor Ldsay entered office 1966 (partly due to lobbyg om Dick Lesch and Mattache) queens (g the language of the era) were the equent targets of the NYPD's Public Morals Sectn, which enforced all laws ncerng vice and gamblg, which also clud homosexualy.
Gay Pri Day, June 29, 1975, Fred W. Found as Parents of Gays (you n see the name on one of the signs this photo), the anizatn was started by three cisgenr upl wh queer children: Jeanne and Jul Manford, Amy and Dick Ashworth, and Bob and Elae Benov.
‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
Amy Ashworth was a tirels supporter and activist on behalf of gay rights until her ath 2017]. Gay Pri, June 1, 1983, Jill Freedman/Getty Imag.
STAR At Gay Pri Day March, June 24, 1973, Fred W. The Cy of New York recently announced the pair will be honored wh a memorial near the Stonewall se; the procs of choosg the artist is currently a failed occupatn at NYU October 1970, Rivera drafted a document (ma public by activist and wrer Rea Gossett) wh the headle, "Gay Power When Do We Want It?
" It was a ll to arms aimed at the police and their relentls harassment of, "our gay brothers and sisters.
GAY PICTUR
Was found to support gay people livg on the streets or dangero suatns. Makg rent was a perennial challenge; they lost the apartment after eighteen 1972, the drivg forc of the queer rights movement, now firmly unr the ntrol of whe, middle-class gays and lbians, had succeed phg trans people of lor, cludg those that had been at the foreont of the movement jt a few years earlier, to the sil.
Her fiance and tth-tellg were met wh boos, although her fal cheer for Gay Power -- her preferred rallyg cry -- was appld. Gay Pri Rally In Washgton Square Park, July 27, 1969, Fred W. Gay & Lbian Pri Para, 1980, Arpadi/IMAGES/Getty Imag.
'HIGH SCHOOL MIL' TEASER NFIRMS LUS GRABEEL'S RYAN EVANS IS GAY WH SAME-SEX KISS
Gay Pri, June 1, 1984, Barbara Alper/Getty Imag. Gay Pri, June 1, 1982, Barbara Alper/Getty Imag.
It is precisely this faceted humany that photographer Stt Pastfield, a gay man himself, sought to pture Gay Ameri, travelg 54, 000 across 50 stat three years to weave a powerful, profoundly human taptry of 140 fathers, brothers, sons, and iends om all walks of life, religns, ethnici, and backgrounds, who happen to be homosexual mal. From lawyers to artists to teachers to farmers, his perceptive, eply personal portras pat a layered picture of ntemporary gay (male) life, the first-ever large-sle photographic survey of gay men always tell you to shoot what you love, and that objective led me to this project.
I cid that I would fd and meet a gay man om every state, listen to their stori, and photograph them the hope that I uld turn that material to a book that would change people's opns and te -- the book that I wish had existed when I was a lad.