Faggot Forefathers: Week Seventeen

    George Platt Lynes

    (April 15, 1907 – 1955)

    Sign: Aries

If ever I am to be a successful photographer, exuberance and fantasy, or qualities of that order, will be the making of me, rather than calculations and impassivity.
Gay American fashion photographer celebrated also for his imaginative homoerotic male nudes, many of which were never publicly available until after his death in 1955. Lynes was commercially successful and became the head of the west coast Vogue Magazine  studio in 1946, photographing celebrities like Kathryn Hepburn, Rosalind Russel, and Gloria Swanson. 

“Faggot Forefathers” is a weekly series highlighting the lives of historically significant gay men and their contributions to our world. 

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