Loving, lustful portraits from New York’s West Village

‘It was a total sexual world down there’: Stanley Stellar’s new photo book, Don’t Worry Boys, presents his ‘affectionate and beautiful’ pictures of gay men in Manhattan in the 1970s and 80s

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Oct 5, 2026 - 12:29
Loving, lustful portraits from New York’s West Village
Stanley Stellar, Don’t Worry Boys

For photographer Stanley Stellar, a typical Sunday in New York in the 1970s involved walking the length of Christopher Street towards the West Side Highway, squeezing through a hole in the fence and descending into the crumbling piers along the Hudson River. Abandoned after the decline of maritime cargo transport in Manhattan and largely neglected by the authorities, this landscape of barbed wire andhellip;

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