When photographer Sunil Gupta arrived in London in 1978, he realised the queer scene in the British capital was nothing like what he had been used to in New York, where he had been living during the 70s. After the Stonewall Riots of 1969, in the years before AIDS made its mark on the community, Sunil became accustomed to seeing people openly cruising New York, his famous Christopher Street series from 1976 capturing the gay men of the city as they confidently and nonchalantly walked its streets. “People were on display,” Sunil says. “They wanted to be seen and identified.”
24 October 2023
