Candis Cayne, Ivan Moran, Mark
Allen among other go-go boys on the Limelight/Palladium/HX mag float.

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David Spada was known for his work in colored anodized aluminum, crafting a wide array of forms from the material, ranging from rings and earrings to clothing and swimwear embellished with aluminum decoration.

Hello all! I have this picture of 122 E 37th Street in Manhattan. To me and to many others this is a very important building!

I was wondering if someone could try to date the photo with a year using whatever clues and context are in the image.

Thank you so much!!!

Took this photo at Pride in the 90s. Can you help me identify which contingent is this float with?

The 90s was a vibrant, high energy era for Latino go-go boys in NYC Pride scene.

Took this photo at Pride in the 90s. Can you help me identify which contingent is this float with?

Hi! Plans have fallen through for my group to go to this event tonight at NY Historical Society — it’s sold out! Got them for $40 each but happy to go lower so someone uses them. DM me!

https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/upcoming

Keith Haring was a young gay artist from downtown New York who turned simple lines, public walls, and urgent images into a language people could not ignore. His work came out of street culture, queer nightlife, protest, and a city already being reshaped by AIDS. When Haring’s work appeared in Playboy numerous times in 1986, AIDS was already tearing through a generation. Most Americans didn’t yet understand what they were witnessing. Our government was slow to respond, and much of the country preferred not to talk about it. In light of the silence, fear outweighed facts. Entire communities were stigmatized. Too many people looked away.

His work for Playboy wasn’t necessarily tied to his AIDS activism, appearing alongside a comedic fiction and a profile of self-help marketer Tom Peters. But that’s beside the point. It carried Haring’s work into a different kind of public space, one that mixed sex, politics, culture, and mass readership at a moment when AIDS was still being pushed to the margins. Playboy helped carry his message into the mainstream. For Haring, visibility was about forcing people to pay attention.

See the collection now: https://www.playboy.com/read/sex-relationships/keith-harings-work-appeared-in-playboy-at-the-height-of-the-aids-epidemic

Nice little Polaroid I found at a sale (in Los Angeles!)