Gay flirtation. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 1988
Posted by razzbuffnik on March 11th, 2009
Back in the late eighties I was living in Brisbane, Queensland and during the 1988 world Expo in Brisbane my mother bought a season’s ticket and stayed with me for a few months. At the time I was living in an apartment in an area near the city called New Farm on the Brisbane River and it was a short ferry ride to the Expo site. In one of the neighbouring apartments were a gay couple, Greg and John, who thought because I was “living” with my mother, that I must be gay. Anyhow, as they told me later, their “gaydar” told them so. Let this be a lesson to all you guys over twenty one years old, still living with their mothers!
One day Greg and John invited my mother and I to a birthday party at their place. They were great guys and a lot of fun, plus my Mum also got along with them as well, so we went along. My Mother has worked with gay guys since the sixties and over the years has had gay friends. So basically, I’ve been brought up around gays and as such, I’ve never had a problem with them or their sexuality. Ever since I developed (no pun intended) an interest in photography, I’ve admired the photography of Gary Winogrand, Diane Arbus and Alfred Eisenstadt, so when I was invited to go to Greg and John’s party I jumped at the chance to visit this “other world” and take pictures with the then new Kodak film TMZ pushed to 6400 ISO.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Was that almost 20 years ago? I think I have the same fridge!
Why are they interested in that plate? hee hee!
March 11th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Did you write another post with these pictures cuz they look familiar. Maybe it was more about your mother the other post? Anyway, these photos are unlike your other later on portraits. Did you give up this style after trying it out on them? It’s actually quite interesting the individual photos together.
March 12th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Planetross
Yep! Time flies when you’re having fun…….. actually time just flies.
Pat
I did post first post this in May 2007 and since there were no comments, I thought I’d post it again. I posted a lot of good things a little too early on. Back in those days I was thrilled to get 70 visits a day. Nowadays I get around 700 visits a day and I figure that more people will get to see some of my more interesting shots that I put up for basically no one to see.
This sort of photography is my favourite type of photography, I just don’t do it so much anymore because nowadays I don’t tend to be “the guy with the camera” in social events, but rather a participant.
For another example of this sort of shot check these two links out:
http://blog.allthedumbthings.com/2007/04/20/the-port-office-brisbane-qld-1990/
http://blog.allthedumbthings.com/2007/04/21/water-pistol-party-brisbane-1989/#comments