On another forum someone asked the old people what it was like for gay people in the latter part of the 20th Century and when things started to changed.
I'm an old guy and I remember the exact instant things started to change.
Since 1990 Life Magazine has died, been resurrected and died again. And I was a subscriber until it stopped publishing.
I only drag this in here because it's one of the few photographs that makes me sob like a little girl, it actually changed the world's view on AIDS and gay people and it's now considered a "rare" photograph despite the fact that it's estimated at least 1 billion people have seen it. Basically people have forgotten about it in the last 27 years.
It's entitled "The last Breaths of David Kirby". It put a middle class, family values face on gay people. Things were never the same after that.
If you're wondering why it is you have to put up with gay marriage and other gay related stuff, it's because of this photo.
Interestingly it was colorized and used in an advertising campaign by the United Colors of Bentton - a clothing store, with the families permission. There was some blowback from the Catholic Church on this because the Church felt it was to was allusion to depictions of Mary and the Crucified Jesus.
I'm an old guy and I remember the exact instant things started to change.
Since 1990 Life Magazine has died, been resurrected and died again. And I was a subscriber until it stopped publishing.
I only drag this in here because it's one of the few photographs that makes me sob like a little girl, it actually changed the world's view on AIDS and gay people and it's now considered a "rare" photograph despite the fact that it's estimated at least 1 billion people have seen it. Basically people have forgotten about it in the last 27 years.
It's entitled "The last Breaths of David Kirby". It put a middle class, family values face on gay people. Things were never the same after that.
If you're wondering why it is you have to put up with gay marriage and other gay related stuff, it's because of this photo.
Interestingly it was colorized and used in an advertising campaign by the United Colors of Bentton - a clothing store, with the families permission. There was some blowback from the Catholic Church on this because the Church felt it was to was allusion to depictions of Mary and the Crucified Jesus.
