Stanley Stellar reminisces about gay life at the much-mythologised New York piers in the 70s and 80s
has photographed gay men in New York City for just over 45 years. “In 1976 I’d been part of Gay Liberation,” he recalls. “I thought we, gay men, were worth noting, that we were worth being looked at with affection and respect. Nobody did that. We had no rights. I didn’t accept it. I just didn’t fucking buy it.”are showing a suite of unseen photographs of the Christopher Street Piers, marking the opening of its new, expanded, Tribeca gallery. opens on January 15.
In the city, gay men could only meet at night, in the dark, in clubs or in bars. The piers were free. You could take off your clothes and lay in the sun, nude, with other guys looking for sex, right in Manhattan. And the police didn’t care. It was safe. We became a city within a city, and it was based on freedom and sunlight. There was nowhere else we could have done that. None.” – it depicts a man about my age, naked and tanned.
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