Photographer Matthew Leifheit spent seven years capturing the iconic queer spot's sexual hedonism.
”. “I do feel like there's a strange similarity to what's going on on the island [now, compared to] the 1970s,” Matthew says. Back then, “there was a kind of hedonism. People had these very hard won sexual freedoms that they were exercising as a political act.” Today, the availability ofand anti-HIV medications in New York has helped turn the dial back to that time.
The men in the book were cast in a myriad of different ways. Some were sourced through gay dating apps, others Matthew found through old-fashioned posters around town and in gay bars that read: “
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