As an LGBT individual, what does compiling all of these photographs for the larger community mean to you? There is something very reaffirming about seeing these vintage photos of gay couples, seeing that we’ve always been around. I still buy original photos, but they are getting so expensive that I’m just about priced out of the market.

I started looking on Google Images and discovered that these sorts of photos were all over the Internet. I rediscovered them in a box a few years ago that’s what got me interested again. I collected them for years and years, but during one of my many moves they were stored away and forgotten. The Huffington Post: How did you come across all of these photographs? Jeffrey Gent: I started noticing vintage photos of male couples at the 26th St.