His voice first attracted my attention, his countenance fixed it, and his manners attached me to him for ever…I certainly love him more than any human being… Text: Lord Byron writing to Elizabeth Bridget Pigot about his boyfriend, John Eddleston, 5th July 1807 Image: Unknown
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography
Tagged: gay, John Eddleston, letters, Lord Byron
It was my turn to decide, I knew this was our time. No one else will have me like you do, No one else will have me, only you. You’ll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time, What are you hoping for? I’m here and now I’m ready, Holding on tight. Text: […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Jimmy Eat World, men dancing, sailors
What do Broadway and the Internet have in common? Nothing. One of them is a geographic location where lots of theatrical shows occur, the other is a network of computers. Metaphorically, though, they still don’t have anything in common. That doesn’t make this Internet-themed musical any less entertaining. hat tip: Matthew Weissman
Categories: video
Tagged: musical theater, social media, things i love, Web Site Story, West Side Story
If you do not want to write, at least spit on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and send it to me. You are not taking any notice of me at all. God forgive you — all I wanted was a few words from you. Text: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to his young […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Tchaikovsky, vintage gay photo
A light-bulb memory of a moment which revealed the real me to others — and to myself. Rummaging through a box of books in the garage one day when I was 12 years old, I stumbled across a copy of the paperback edition of ‘Weep No More, My Lady,’* a biography of Judy Garland. Several […]
Categories: for the life of me,gay,memoirs
Tagged: coming out, gay, Judy Garland, Kenneth Hill, memoir, Weep No More My Lady
Song X O the valley in the summer where I and my John Beside the deep river would walk on and on While the flowers at our feet and the birds up above Argued so sweetly on reciprocal love, And I leaned on his shoulder; “O Johnny, let’s play”: But he frowned like thunder and […]
Categories: imagined histories,photography,poem,vintage
Tagged: W.H. Auden
That Shadow My Likeness That shadow my likeness that goes to and fro seeking a livelihood, chattering, chaffering, How often I find myself standing and looking at it where it flits, How often I question and doubt whether that is really me; But among my lovers and caroling these songs, O I never doubt whether […]
Categories: imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: George Platte Lynes, Walt Whitman
Although some will wish that the two men dancing the tango together in these two videos were a couple, in fact they are brothers. Natives of Argentina, Enrique and Guillermo de Faz, known together as Los Hermanos Macana, perform their two-man shows all around the world. Their amazing footwork, esprit and versatility on the floor […]
Categories: video
Tagged: Enrique de Faz, Guillermo de Faz, Los Hermanos Macana, tango, things i love
MILK, a ‘photomosaic’ of Harvey Milk, will be unveiled today in San Francisco. Artist Robert Silvers used 2300 hundred photos from the GLBT Historical Society to recreate photographer Dan Nicoletta’s iconic photo of Milk, the San Francisco city supervisor and gay activist who was assassinated in 1978. Prints of MILK are for sale through Scott […]
Categories: event,gay,photography,queer
Tagged: Dan Nicoletta, GLBT Historical Society, Harvey Milk, Robert Silvers, San Francisco LGBT Community Center, Scott Richards Contemporary Art, things i love
