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Jordan (Tom of Finland Foundation/Echo Park), 2017
Sad Boy (Tom of Finland Foundation/Echo Park), 2017
Holes of your Memory by Amy Von Harrington, Los Angeles CA, 2016
Oleg, West Hollywood, 2016
HOMO RIOT, Los Angeles CA, 2016
The Kiss (Lethal Amounts/Los Angeles, CA), 2017
Full Fantasy Disco, Los Angeles CA, 2018
Gio, Durk, BJ (Tom of Finland Foundation/Echo Park), 2017
Savage Ranch, Temecula, CA, 2015
Part of an on-going photographic series titled QUEERDXS. ©Rubén Esparza
“We are an army because we have to be. We are an army because we are powerful. (We have so much to fight for; we are the most precious of endangered species.) And we are an army of lovers because it is we who know what love is. Desire and lust, too. We invented them. We come out of the closet, face the rejection of society, face firing squads, to love each other! Every time we fuck, we win.”
—Excerpt from An Army of Lovers Cannot Lose, part of a manifesto passed initially out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990.