Vintage gay couple photos
Vintage gay
I really love this photo of a dapper gay couple from the s. While I don&#;t know who they are, the photo is included in a article posted by the History Channel called, &#;How Gay Tradition Blossomed During the Roaring Twenties&#; I highly propose you check out the article if you&#;re a fan of this weekly post and gay society / history in general. It is an effortless minute read full of information including how (and where) drag started and how for a terse window in time homosexual men and women had a degree of autonomy in a few major cities before the initiate of the Great Depression and WWII.
I dedicate this weekly post, featuring vintage gay photographs, to the men and women who lived in a more critical time where being true to yourself and loving who you want wasn’t always an option and came at a great price. Act you have a photo you would like to share? Email me at bosguymail@
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In Love and Invisible: Vintage Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Couples from the Late 19th and Initial 20th Centuries
A photographic portrait of a couple serves as a public confirmation of their love and partnership. It conveys a clear message to the world: &#;We love each other. We care deeply for one another. We take pride in who we are together.&#;
In the late 19th and premature 20th centuries, a period often associated with repression, many gay and woman loving woman couples boldly celebrated their love through studio portraits.
Despite the prevailing notion that same-sex relationships were shrouded in secrecy, as famously described by Oscar Wilde in his poem &#;Two Loves&#; as &#;the admire that dare not talk its name,&#; gay and lesbian couples often chose to express their love openly.
In fact, numerous gay couples lived together openly throughout their lives. This was notably more feasible for women, as societal norms permitted women to live together if they were not married, often referred to euphemistically as &#;female companions.&#;
For men, opportunities for meeting like-minded
A couple’s photographic portrait is an confirmation of their association. It states for all to see: “We love each other. We concern for each other. We are haughty of who we are together.”
During the Victorian era many gay and womxn loving womxn couples proudly expressed their love for each other in studio portraits. Unlike the common faith that such relationships were “the cherish that dare not speak its name,” as Oscar Wilde so famously described same sex attraction in his poem “Two Loves,” gays and lesbians often dared to present their love. Indeed, many gay and lesbian couples more or less lived openly together throughout their lives. This was far easier for women than for men as women were expected to live together if they were not married, or to live with the euphemistically termed “female companion.”
Men, no historical surprises here, had their possess haunts for rendezvous like-minded souls. In London these could be found in the “Molly houses” and gentlemen’s clubs or pick-ups haunts at Lincoln’s Inn, or St. James Park or the path on the City’s Moorfields, which was charmingly referred to as “Sod
Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
&#;Loving&#; features around photos that propose an intimate look at men&#;s love between the s and s
When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago, they were startled to see a relationship that looked much like theirs: two men, embracing and clearly in love.
As Dee Swann writes for the Washington Post, the image spoke to the couple about the history of love between men.
“The open expression of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell tell the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk. We were intrigued that a photo like this could have survived into the [21st] century. Who were they?”
In the decades that followed this initial discovery, the pair came across more than 2, photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales a