It’s hard to imagine that at one time not that along ago, New York was a city awash in fashion, in its own sense of New York style and fee...

George Platt Lynes, courtesy Throckmorton Fine Arts We now live very much in the Age of George Platt Lynes, a miraculously queer photo...

Doric Wilson, 1962, at the Caffe Cino, courtesy doricwilson.com Doric Wilson died last Saturday, May 7, at the age of 72. The exact time...

Picture of Lance Loud courtesy FindaGrave.com I was blithely watching “Royal Wedding” the Saturday night before Easter on Channel 13, PBS—o...

                                               Alvin Baltrop: Men at the Piers, courtesy Third Streaming Gallery I remember Alvin Baltrop ...

                                                                                 Original cast picture from The Boys in the Band Last Frida...

1970s picture of the trucks in the Village I heard about the trucks my first summer in New York, in 1967. One of my older friends from Ju...

Perry Brass hangs out in Southhampton, 1976. Note: Mark Spitz mustache . Sometime in the mid-60s and into the 1970s, Sunday became “the” ga...

Original Marchers in front of the Stonewall Inn, June 27, 2010 (l to r:) Bob Spiegel, Roberto Camp, Rick Landman, Jim Fouratt, Mark Segal...

Perry Brass and his sister Nancy at Riis Park, early 70s.  My first summer in my new apartment in the East Village, 1967, I learned how ...

Peter Orlovsky & Allen Ginsberg, mid-60s.By Richard Avedon  About six weeks after I moved into Jerry Borensky’s apartment in the East ...

By Perry Brass It was 1966. I was 19 years old, and my roommate, Bob Schwiller, 42, introduced me to two of his best friends, a 30-somethi...

The year: 1966. Bob Schwiller, my 42-year-old room mate on Central Park West, told me about New York during World War II. “They had black-...

I came to New York in August of 1966, a month before my nineteenth birthday. I had grown up in the Deep South, in Savannah, Georgia, and New...