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Mathew & Rowan
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Matthew LaBanca, 46, and his husband Rowan Meyer, 36, watch old “The Great British Bake Off” episodes from the comfort of their living room in Woodside, Queens on Tuesday, October. 13, 2021. LaBanca was fired from both his jobs as the music director at Corpus Christi Church and music teacher at St. Joseph’s Catholic Academy, by the Brooklyn Diocese after a private committee decided his marriage to Meyer violated a contractual obligation. Photographed for The New York Times.about the photographer
Hiram Alejandro Durán is a Brooklyn-based freelance photographer from the Ciudád Juarez, Chihuahua–El Paso, Texas border region. He is the Photo Editor at The Riverdale Press, a Photo Contributor at THE CITY and a frequent contributor to The Imprint News. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Marshall Project, The Mail & Guardian (South Africa) and Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Puerto Rico) via the Pulitzer Center.back to gallery
