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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Jim Farber

‘I feel love’: Nicholas Blair’s images of gay joy and defiance in 80s America

A street parade including a person in tiger-print costume
Pride March, New York City, 1984. All images © Nicholas Blair/courtesy of powerHouse Books Photograph: Nicholas Blair/© Nicholas Blair / Courtesy of powerHouse Books

When Nicholas Blair first showed me his photographs for the book Castro to Christopher: Gay Streets of America 1979-1986, I had many thoughts. But, I admit, the one that pushed to the forefront right away was: “Why am I not in any of them?”

I was only half joking.

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