Before There Was Pride: William Gedney's Pre-Stonewall Photos of Queer Men In San Francisco

Before There Was Pride: William Gedney's Pre-Stonewall Photos of Queer Men In San Francisco

The work of queer photographer William Gale Gedney (1932-1989) went under-appreciated during his lifetime, which was cut short by AIDS, though in recent years his photographs of life in the Haight-Ashbury just before the Summer of Love have resurfaced thanks to a 2021 book of his work.It's not often that gay people get glimpses of their forebears from the years before the first Gay Liberation Marches and Pride parades. The 2020 book Loving: A Ph…