A Brooklyn native, Stellar picked up a camera in 1976 and pointed it, almost immediately, at his own
community: the West Village, Christopher Street, the abandoned piers. Against the background of
New York in its most unkempt and precarious, sex is everywhere and unapologetic: men frolicking and
screwing in full daylight, skimpy clothing leaving little to the imagination, balanced against a natural, authentic record of Stellar’s milieu through intense, unguarded portraiture that moves through the AIDS crisis, revealing both vulnerability and strength. 

Initiated and edited by Jordan Hancock as a reappraisal of the two decades that shaped Stellar's further career, Don’t Worry Boys reaffirms Stellar’s place inside the canon of artists who documented this critical chapter of gay culture, while refusing to flatten its subject into either celebration or elegy, building joy directly inside its own grief.

192pp, 45 colour and 55 duotone plates, 219 × 290 mm
Section-sewn debossed quarterbound hardcover
Designed by LJ Studio
Edited by Jordan Hancock
Text by Andrew Holleran
Published by Loose Joints
LJ227, September 2026
ISBN 978-1-912719-80-8