Blair documented the narrow window of time between 1979 and 1986, after Stonewall and before the worst days of the AIDS epidemic, when there was a period of giddy, blossoming gay life in places often seen as "gay paradises." San Francisco’s Castro District, New York’s Christopher Street and Fire Island, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, were best known. If the shadow of AIDS were not lingering over these photographs, it would be as though they were showing us an alternate universe where full legal equality for LGBTQ people could have come much sooner. These historic images encapsulate some of the few places in America where, for the very first time and very brief while, it was OK to be gay.