Teresa Gomez Martorell
Narcissus, 2007
intaglio relief print
OBEY THE BEARD! #gaybear #gay #gayboyswithbeards
The ground-breaking metamorphosis scene in the Michael Jackson short film ‘Black or White’ released in 1991
life:
In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America, and twelve months before LIFE ceased publishing as a weekly, the magazine featured an article on “gay liberation” that, seen a full 40 years later, feels sensational, measured and somehow endearingly, deeply square all at the same time.
See the essay here on LIFE.com.
(Grey Villet—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)