he's exactly where he wants to be (comm for @lostprincessofatlantica!)

Navy Sailors, Manhattan’s West Side piers, 1969–72 - photo by Alvin Baltrop, from the 2012 Huffington Post article “30 LGBT Artists You Should Know (SLIDESHOW)”

At the age of 26, Alvin Baltrop began photographing Manhattan’s West Side piers, an area of refuge for queer teenage runaways as well as a stage for the city’s underground gay scene. The stark reality conveyed in Baltrop’s photographs was not well received by the mainstream art world, and so his work was largely ignored until after his death. But the thousands of images captured by Baltrop between 1975 and 1986 stand as remnants of a New York City community rarely captured before or after.