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Contents:
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
* gay photography history *
“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,. Harry Hay found the Mattache Society, an early gay rights anizatn, Los Angel 1950.
Among the polil buttons and the photos of gay motorcycle clubs, some artifacts are simply touchg: dis legend Sylvter’s panel om the Aids Memorial Quilt, for stance. The plague years loom large, imag of Act Up’s street protts and “die-s”, unflchg remrs of when an HIV diagnosis was a ath objects almost fy belief, such as newspaper clippgs of an unsuccsful 1970 attempt by a utopian group lled Gay Liberatn to move to Alpe unty, a ral stretch near the Nevada borr, numbers sufficient to take over.
THE OBSSIVE PHOTOGRAPHER BEHD AMERI’S FIRST GAY MAGAZE
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