“You’re beautiful,” I said. “I love you.” I met him half an hour ago but he was and I did– there were above a hundred thousand people at the party and he was a bar-tender. “Am I?” he said, “I don’t know what to say–” Since he didn’t know me at all he could hardly […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: gay poetry, Paul Goodman, poem, vintage male affection
I only met one other homosexual in the army. That was in Le Havre in 1917. We was on the boat coming home. I don’t know how these things work, whether it’s through conversation, or whether it’s the attitude of the individual concerned, but we seemed to come together, see. All of a sudden his […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: gay history, male affection, vintage photo
Whitney Houston will release I Look To You on August 31, her first studio album in seven years. Can the absent diva who launched a thousand “crack is whack” jokes win our hearts again? It remains to be seen. Even if our hearts are willing, it takes more than just showing up to claim a […]
Tagged: I Look To You, Michael Jackson, things i love, Whitney Houston
I do not know if they talked or went to bed together on that first night. For a long time they just held each other out there under the stars. And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy, pulling him closer and closer to him, as if he was clutching at him, […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Neil Bartlett, Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall, vintage male affection, vintage photo
