They were all following in the footsteps of generations of gay photographers, everyone from Robert Mapplethorpe to Alasdair McLellan to more obscure names like Alvin Baltrop, who insisted through the years in recording same-sex affection – to affirm their existence in a world that denied their sexuality, to record their own history, or simply to exalt, to use a phrase from modern parlance, the idea that “love is love.” Here, to coincide with gay pride month, is a selection of images from a variety of sources – the new Mapplethorpe retrospective at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, an exhibit on 1970’s queer culture which was at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Tom Bianchi’s celebrated monograph on the Fire Island Pines – that together celebrate a simple but powerful image: #TwoMenKissing. In response, everyday men across the country took to their social media channels to post pictures and selfies kissing friends, lovers, strangers.
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