via WBEZ Chicago Public Radio - and their wonderful Eight Forty-Eight show.
Doug Ischar came to town in the early '80s to study photography at Columbia College Chicago. Soon after arriving, he discovered the thriving gay scene in the area known as the “Belmont Rocks” in the Lakeview neighborhood. Fascinated by what he saw, Ischar decided to document the men and their beach, taking pictures nearly every day in the summers of '84 and '85.
Then the slides were simply packed away. Now nearly 25 years the photos are on display for the first time in an exhibition entitled Marginal Waters at GOLDEN, 816 W. Newport in Chicago.
Alison Cuddy toured the exhibition with Ischar.
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