"Gay PDA Is Okay!"

"Love Needs Freedom... Live Fearlessly"

PDA: Public display of affection

"We Were Always There..."

"Love And Life's Journeys..."

From the work of Chicago born photographer Richard Renaldi. Over the course of more than two decades, Richard has recorded images of himself and his partner Seth Boyd in their hotel rooms across the country and around the world for his project "Hotel Room Portraits."

I fell in love with these images from the very first time that I saw them. There is something incredibly familiar and comforting in recognizing not only the love between Richard and Seth, but also the rigors of travel and the occasional weary eyes and tiredness that we all fall prey to. Moreover, these photos reveal an intimacy and comfortableness that one finds only when two people are truly in love... They reveal "love and life's journeys."

Richard Renaldi was born in Chicago in 1968. He received his BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. Exhibitions of his photographs have been mounted in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. In 2006 Renaldi's first monograph, Figure and Ground, was published by the Aperture Foundation. His second monograph, Fall River Boys, was released in 2009. Richard Renaldi is the founder and publisher of Charles Lane Press.

"A Thought To Ponder..."

"Selfie Love..."

"Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."

"Unintentionally Gay...?"

It's not just me, right...?

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 3687"

"Only Love's Happiness..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"This Made Me Smile..."

Sometimes you just gotta dance...

"Remembering Black History..."

His story will soon be told in a feature length film by Charles Burnett and Amazon

"The Truth About Love..."

Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

- David Richo

"The Artist's Corner..."

Gabriel Garbow

"Gay PDA Is Okay!"

"Love's Place Is Everywhere... Live Fearlessly"

PDA: Public display of affection

"We Were Always There..."

"A Thought To Ponder..."

Just think about that for a minute...

"Selfie Love..."

"Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 3686"

"Honeymooning In Paradise..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"This Made Me Smile..."

Bring in that extra head...

"The Truth About Love..."

The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.

- Alexander Lowen

"The Artist's Corner..."

"Silence"

Acrylic on canvas

Steve Walker

"Gay PDA Is Okay!"

"Love Is Beautifully Human... Live Fearlessly"

PDA: Public display of affection

"We Were Always There..."

"The Imitation Of Life..."

This is how it sometime happens...

"Selfie Love..."

"Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 3685"

"Love Is Freedom To Be Happy..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"This Made Me Smile..."

"The Truth About Love..."

True love, selfless love, does not wither as beauty fades or life becomes difficult. If anything, its roots grow deeper and its branches spread farther with each shared experience.

- Unknown

"The Artist's Corner..."

Saul Lyons

"Gay PDA Is Okay!"

"Be Openly In Love For All To See... Live Fearlessly"

PDA: Public display of affection

"We Were Always There..."

"The Truth About Love..."

He who loveth, knoweth the inner sun; he see'th Life's blaze.

- Elise Pumpelly Cabot

"Selfie Love..."

"Selfie Love" - those beautiful, grainy, out-of-focus self-pics that capture the truth of true love..."

"Same Gender Loving People - No. 3684"

"The Best Times Are When It's Just Us In Love At Home..."

Positive images of people like me... The truth of the matter is that we all need to see people like ourselves. So everyday, I'll post a photo, drawing or some other artwork that depicts Same Gender Loving People as what we are... Only Human.

"This Made Me Smile..."

"A Thought To Ponder..."

Gay sex life, unlike straight sex life, is never a private matter. When a man and a woman walk hand in hand, it is their love that they make public. When two men walk hand in hand, it is their sex life that they make public…

Our words are acts; our privacy is public. This reality stems from the nature of homophobia.

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

“Wrestling with G-d and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition”

"The Artist's Corner..."

Danny Keith

"Gay PDA Is Okay!"

"Love's Freedom... Live Fearlessly"

PDA: Public display of affection

"We Were Always There..."

"The Truth About Love..."

All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

- Ursula K. Le Guin