Gay back in the day.
Photographer Hank O'Neal lived on Christopher Street Christopher Street
magazine for homosexuals. [Am. Pop. Culture: Misc.]
See : Homosexuality during
the early days of New York's gay pride parade A gay pride parade or LGBT pride parade is part of a festival or ceremony held by the LGBT community of a city to commemorate the struggle for LGBT rights and pride. . From 1974 to 1983,
he photographed the revelers. The work is touchingly innocent now, but
in 1979, O'Neal couldn't find a publisher. In 1982,
O'Neal met Allen Ginsberg Noun 1. Allen Ginsberg - United States poet of the beat generation (1926-1997)
Ginsberg , who loved the photos. Together they
selected the best, and Ginsberg added his own captions (see photos above
and at left). This year O'Neal and Ginsberg's project finally
appears in print as Gay Day (Abrams, $24.95), with a foreword by William
S. Burroughs Noun 1. William S. Burroughs - United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)
Burroughs, William Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs . It's a lovely time capsule.
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