The L.A. Gay Men’s Chorus with an all-male take on the Cell Block Tango from Kander and Ebb’s Chicago.
Tagged: Cell Block Tango, Chicago, gay, Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, GMCLA, Kander and Ebb
Author Archives: Kenneth Hill
for the one I love most lay sleeping by me 6
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow’d; And else, when I carous’d, or when my plans were accomplish’d, still I was not happy; But the day when I rose at dawn […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: bed, gay, love, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, vintage photography, Walt Whitman, WHEN I heard at the close of the day
is it possible to be tattooed by someone’s soul? 4
Is it possible to be tattooed by someone’s soul? Only with eyes closed can I trace outlines, a slight raise on my unmarked skin (even in creases: inner elbows, between fingers and toes). The designs always familiar but too abstract to identify. I mean, can one be widowed by the living? Carting the blank stone […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: Ganymede, Michael Montlack, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male, vintage male affection
i like my body when it is with your 2
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: e.e. cummings, i like my body when it is with your, poem, Threshold, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
perfection wasted 0
And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market– the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage, their soft faces blanched in the footlight glow, their laughter close to […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: Death, Herbert Tobias, John Updike, Le Flore, Paris, vintage gay photo, vintage photography
friendship 0
Character is so largely affected by associations that we cannot afford to be indifferent as to who and what our friends are. They write their names in our albums, but they do more, they help make us what we are. Be therefore careful in selecting them; and when wisely selected, never sacrifice them. Text: M. […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: character, choices, friendship, sacrifice, vintage gay photo
à quoi ça sert l’amour? 0
Piaf’s finest. Edith Piaf and Théo Sarapo, 1962 Words and music: Michel Emer
Tagged: à quoi ça sert l'amour?, Édith Piaf, France, french music, love
i invited him to choose between women and me 3
I invited him to choose between women and me. I thought he was going to choose me and that he’d strive to renounce them. I was in error. “I risk making a promise,” he replied, “and not keeping it. That would pain you. I don’t want you to be in pain. Breaking off would hurt […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Jean Cocteau, Le Livre Blanc, The White Paper, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
tango: black and white and gay all over 2
“Argentine Tango is to lead and follow, to step to & fro, to turn right & left, to move together as one body. To Tango is to trust, to pause, to dance in a close embrace, articulating the unfolding of desire into passion.” — Dr. Hugo Heyrman Film: All-male dance sequence from ‘Tango,’ written and […]
Categories: choreography,dance,film,gay,video
Tagged: Carlos Rivarola, Carlos Saura, dance, gay, Julio Bocca, tango
i’d know you anywhere from my dreams 0
I’d know you anywhere, I’d know that grin, I’d know you anywhere when you walked in, I would tingle with a single glance in your eye, Watching the starlight dance in your eye. You saw my vacant stare, you understood, I’d love you anywhere, honest I would, I was certain this would happen, strange as […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Johnny Mercer, vintage male affection, vintage photography
