. Suddenly everyone wanted to be involved. There was this real blossoming of gay communities in towns and cities across the north of England.”
Stuart images highlight the joy of queerness in many different guises, even when the AIDS crisis had cast such a dark shadow over the lives of so many. “It was a totally different time. In all the pictures, instead of mobile phones, people are holding cans of lager. It was a lot freer and less segregated as well. You’ve got these shots and it’s a complete melting pot of each subsection of the queer community in one photo, all enjoying themselves as a group.
Stuart’s negatives collected dust for the next three decades. He had always intended to digitise them all, but the daunting task of scanning thousands of images was one that required a lot of time and determination -- the kind that only a national lockdown can offer. Once he had digitised the first few images, he was determined to finish, with the whole process taking him a year to complete. “I thought, ‘what will I do now? I guess I’ll just put them on Instagram and see if people like them.
Despite interest from various publishers, Stuart felt that it was important to have creative control over the book, to create something specifically for fans of the Instagram page. Alongside his creative partner and editor Joe Ingham, he’s set up a Kickstarter to fund the project. “We noticed when we were going through the negatives that there were quite a few celebs in the pictures.
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