[Photo Albums]: Two Albums Depicting an Atlanta Gay Man's Life in the 1970s and 1980s

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Two albums. Spiral bound blue leatherette quarto album measuring 9.5" x 11.5". Black leatherette quarto album measuring 11" x 11.5". Contains 584 black and white and color photographs measuring between 2" x 3" and 8" x 10" with some captions. Very good albums with near fine photographs. An extensive collection of photographs compiled by a gay man living in Atlanta, Georgia in the 1970s and 1980s. The first album features a label on the front board reading, "Family & Friends - Winter '70 - '71." This album includes mostly black and white photography of parties over the holidays in late 1970 and early 1971. These include Christmas decorations, cocktail parties, men in fashionable 1970s clothes, close family, and a cruise taken during this holiday. The second album is considerably larger and picks up where the first album leaves off in the spring of 1971. The albums is a combination of family events such as barbeques and birthdays and images of gay culture and events attended by the compiler. One of these was a trip to Fire Island, New York in September of 1971 with photos of a group of smiling men at a bar and images of the beach. Some more explicit photos show a man's backside in cut out jeans and sunbathing. Other photos feature scenes from an elaborate Halloween party with numerous female impersonators, over the top costumes including a Miss Piggy and Darth Vader, and drag performers. A few of the men are donning leather bondage gear while another is dressed as a Playboy bunny. This album is less chronological than the first and jumps in time to the early 1980s by the end. One section of photos shows the compiler and friends getting ready for a party and applying makeup, wigs, and flapper dresses. The end of the album features another Christmas party with family and friends, a summer "white party" with guests in summer linens, a table set for Thanksgiving, and a trip to a lake. Additionally included are a few earlier holiday photos from the late 1960s laid in. An interesting and sizeable collection of a gay Atlanta man's life in the 1970s. N° de ref. del artículo 453747

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