Gard grew up in a family working class in Hartford, Connecticut. When he entered the high school school, he was detained on the therapeutic path, because, as he wrote, “It was simply assumed that most of the children came out of my neighborhood, the boys in particular, they were not“ university subject. ”He saved, in his narration, by an older boy, one of the great, he presented him to literature, theater and the opera. In the teaching of the middle school in Harlem, and through a friend, Jonathan Silin, a teacher in another progressive school, will become a partner in his life. Its creation is self -images, often in the bare.
Larry Dobrick, 1988.
Alison Bakdel, 1995.
Edmund White, 1985.
Gard also explores a picture, photographed friends, took nudity, and in a non -season, created close images, prescribed for his corner of Hamptons, in a way that called the only city scenery in Eugene Attt. But he was not until 1985, about ten years after taking a camera seriously, as Gard imagined the project that he would follow up with the rest of his life. In June, after he and Celine walked in the annual Braid procession in New York, the couple attended the performance of the play “The Normal Heart”, a semi -biography of a biography about AIDS Activist who is struggling to attract attention to the plague who tears his community. “When I sat watching the play, it is revealed in the dark space of the theater similar to the square,” Giard wrote, “its walls are engraved with the names of the dead, some of which realized, moved to a sense of urgency.” “By the end of the evening, I had reached a decision on my work: it should be useful for homosexuals by registering something of notes about our experience, history and culture.”
