But just possibly with you on a high hill, first watching lest any person for miles around approach unawares, Or possibly with you sailing at sea, or on the beach of the sea or some quiet island, Here to put your lips upon mine I permit you, With the comrade’s long-dwelling kiss or the […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: kiss, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, Walt Whitman, Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand
I’ve looked around enough to know That you’re the one I want to go through time with. Text: Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle, lyrics Photo: Subjects unknown, via varones/flickr
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography
Tagged: Jim Croce, late 19th century, lyrics
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: ee cummings, i carry your heart with me, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug, […]
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Tagged: poetry, Thom Gunn, vintage, vintage gay photo
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel, for example– I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. Living is no laughing matter: you must take it seriously, so much so and to such a degree that, for example, […]
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Tagged: Nazim Hikmet, Turkish poets, vintage, vintage gay photo
A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I’ve played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year. Back from Christmas break, Happy New Year to all from Woolf […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: 2010, men, New Year, tuxedo, vintage, vintage gay photo
There are few better vehicles for outing yourself as a gay-in-the-making than the Christmas list you write up for Santa. What’s on it says a lot. When I was a kid, I asked for things like watercolor sets, musical instruments and books. Hmmm. Equally revealing is what isn’t on your list. I never asked for […]
Tagged: brothers, Christmas, coming out, dolls, gay, gender, outing, Santa, sterotypes, toys
Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] hide me in your hollows taste the salt that clings to me shipwrecked in your shadows scented by the sea hide me in the wisdom of your thighs ride me like a wave chart my secret places navigate my shores map the ocean’s traces […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,lesbian,music,photography
Tagged: gay, lesbian, love, sailors, vintage, vintage gay photo
