“At Home With Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America”

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It was only after Sage Sohier had been photographing gay and lesbian couples in the mid-1980s that she realized she had a personal connection to the topic. Her father, a World War II veteran and a Boston lawyer, had left her mother when she was a toddler, never remarried, but had live-in boyfriends on and off for the rest of his life. He never admitted he was gay.

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In retrospect, she now says the photographs she took of same-sex couples starting in that era were her way of connecting to him. Those images comprise “At Home With Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America,” a book and exhibition on view at the Blue Sky gallery in Portland, Ore.

She had embarked on the project in the summer of 1986, when fear and hysteria over AIDS still had some people wondering if the disease could be spread by casual contact. That prompted her to think about the lives of homosexual men and women, not just those affected by the disease.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/same-sex-couples-at-ease-at-home/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Bill and Ric, with Ric’s daughter Kate, San Francisco, 1987.



Cindy & Barb’s Wedding, Boston, 1986



Sheia & Dorothy, Santa Fe, 1988



Stephanie & Monica, Boston, 1987



Tim & Chuck, Key West, 1987


more here too: http://petapixel.com/2014/10/21/photo-series-depicts-american-sex-couples-1980s-home/

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[irisblue]

2. we are here, have always been......get used to it we aint goin back

and Linda and Nancy's' photo will cause scrotal retraction among a few hundred fools.

[Skittles]

4. and some of us straight folk have always been with you

solidarity with our gay brothers and sisters

[irisblue]

5. love you Skittles

[Skittles]

6. YEE HAW

BACK AT YA BABE

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