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
“Instead of going to Planned Parenthood, we went to brunch.” Long before the world revolved around the language of zeros and ones, cable television, Trip Advisor and Twitter, the tradition of storytelling was a primary means of human communication. Storytelling is how mankind records history, passes on knowledge and entertains others. From oral storytelling to [...]
Categories: performance,video,word
Tagged: And I Am Not Lying, Jeff Simmermon, Mattesn Perry, Scheherazade, storytelling, Susan Duncan, The Moth, things i love
I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking in a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Herman Melville, Moby Dick, vintage male affection
It is true that I have my young king who genuinely adores me. You cannot form an idea of our relations…. He says he can hardly believe that he really possesses me. None can read without astonishment, without enchantment, the letters he writes me. Text: The composer Richard Wagner writing to Mme. Eliza Wille about [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: King Ludwig II, Richard Wagner, vintage male affection
He said: If I could trace the lines that ran Between your smile and your sleight of hand, I would guess that you put something up my sleeve. Now every time I see your face, the bells ring in a far-off place, We can find each other this way I believe. He said: As my [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: gay, Josh Ritter, Judy Collins, vintage male affection
Flowers on the hillside, bloomin’ crazy, Crickets talkin’ back and forth in rhyme, Blue river runnin’ slow and lazy, I could stay with you forever And never realize the time. Situations have ended sad, Relationships have all been bad. Mine’ve been like Verlaine’s and Rimbaud. But there’s no way I can compare All those scenes [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Bob Dylan, vintage gay photo, You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: gay marriage, maya angelou, paper moon, vintage photo
We don’t cry — Tim and I, We are far too grand – But we bolt the door tight To prevent a friend – Then we hide our brave face Deep in our hand – Not to cry — Tim and I – We are far too grand – Nor to dream — he and [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: Emily Dickinson, male affection, vintage photo
If you want a lover I’ll do anything you ask me to If you want another kind of love I’ll wear a mask for you If you want a partner take my hand, or if you want to strike me down in anger here I stand I’m your man Text: Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man [...]
Categories: imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Barabás Miklós, Leonard Cohen
A master composer of our time will celebrate his 78th birthday this week. He is a man who has been nominated for five Tony awards, won two, and was just presented with a special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater last month. One Broadway song he wrote was recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1964 [...]
Categories: cabaret,for the life of me,music,stage,theatre
Tagged: Hello Dolly!, Henley Fringe Festival, Jerry Herman, La Cage Aux Folles, Leanne Masterton, Mame
