Thomas Michael Alleman: Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws

Sometimes the work we create, though powerful at the time, continues to be relevant, historical, and just plain interesting over the course of time. Thirty years ago, Los Angeles photographer, Thomas Michael Alleman, was a freelance newspaper reporter in

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Thirty years ago, Los Angeles photographer, Thomas Michael Alleman, was a freelance newspaper reporter in San Francisco, where one of the publications he worked for focused on gay press. He found himself in the middle of the AIDS crisis and San Francisco in it’s Castro District heyday, and captured a community in crisis, but also a community that was very much alive