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Hal Fischer, Handkerchiefs, 1977, carbon pigment printing. Courtesy: © Hal Fischer and Project Native Informant, London

Small containers of artisanal poppers on silver platters, held aloft by shirtless models, cut a path that is gleaming the audience of B-list homosexual a-listers on top ?oor of this Standard Hotel. Outside, ?reworks burst across the Manhattan skyline. It absolutely was June 2016, I became 24, and it also ended up being my ?rst Pride in brand new York City. I happened to be at Slumbr, an event hosted by the homosexual sex-and-dating software Grindr, which boasted themed suites created by designers such as for example Juliana Huxtable, Jacolby Satterwhite and Stewart Uoo, their bathtubs full of booze. Continue reading →