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7 Striking Photos from the Gay Gotham Exhibition
Through February 28, 2017, Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York at the Museum of the City of New York features paintings, photos and other pieces by artists whose work reflects the experience of LGBT New Yorkers throughout the 20th century—along with letters and artifacts that offer peeks into their lives. Here are some of our favorites; check out the show to find yours.
Photo: © Chantal Regnault
Young men voguing at House of Jourdan Ball, 1989
Collection of Philip Aarons and Shelley Fox Aarons, New York
Two men in Bryant Park, 1960s
Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Carrie Goteiner and Miriam Montaug Ashkenaz in memory of Haoui Montaug
Invitation to Shazork!!!! at Danceteria, late 1980s
© The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s
Andy Warhol and Candy Darling, 1969
Courtesy, The New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division
“Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do,” 1989
Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Carl Van Vechten. Used with permission of The Van Vechten Trust
Anna May Wong, 1932
Courtesy, Eva Weiss
Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw and Deb Margolin, 1984