i love this boy, not for his beauty only, but just because my life that was so lonely knows in his presence some strange healing power, an unfamiliar peace — as if each hour should pause a little in its swift-winged flight and breathe a benediction. in his bright blue eyes his happy spirit sits […]
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Tagged: f.s. woodley, gay, male affection, military, soldiers, vintage gay photo, vintage photography
By whose direction found’st thou out this place? By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far As that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. …I wish […]
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Tagged: Shakespeare, vintage gay photo
In celebration of the historic vote on 24 June, 2011 in which New York lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage. i do what greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share […]
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Tagged: Adam Bede, Andrew M. Cuomo, gay marriage, George Eliot, New York, vintage gay photo
Never thought this was possible, this tug-tug-tugging of the heart. A face I didn’t want to take my eyes from. That face can never, will never leave me. A face to light up my own. My piece of treasure. A nail to pierce the hands and feet. Always be with me, I thought to myself. […]
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Tagged: gay, gays in the military, Jonathan Kemp, vintag, vintage gay photo
Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I got to sing, I got to dance, I got to be a part of a great romance Still forbidden, still outrageous, only a few around us knew but no one said a word it was contagious We looked out the window as we […]
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Tagged: affection, For What It's Worth, In Your Dreams, lesbian, Stevie Nicks, vintage photo, women
You are a murderer No you are not, but really a wrestler Either way it’s just the same For from the ring of your entangled body Clean as leather, lustful as a lily Will nail me down On your stout neck like a column, like a pillar of tendons The thoughtful forehead (In fact, it’s […]
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Tagged: gay, male affection, Mutsuo Takahashi, vintage gay photo, wrestlers, wrestling
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods, or steepy mountains yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds […]
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Tagged: 70s, affectionate, Christopher Marlowe, men, mustache, vintage gay photo, woods
on this day when there’s no holiness in all this madness of tests where the heart is with the sharpest brass knife let us carve a tiny star on each other’s chest watch them light up bright red we will bless them with our lips drink life neither a seven-year itch nor death can split […]
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Tagged: assotto saint, valentine, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
If time holds a miracle we’ll dance together as two old men: sunstroke scalps dropped buttocks, watery thighs. But our hands how our bony, veiny, trembling hands will find their partners palm to palm, fingers rung round each other and hold on tight tight. Dance me dance me across the floor I’ll stay with you […]
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Tagged: Bil Wright, vintage gay photo
… Little by little the largeness of what has happened sweeps over me. I thought I realized it all that last night together; but first the intellect sees, and then when it has created its imaginative symbolism it gives the whole man something to live by. I saw very clearly that night and called it […]
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Tagged: F.O. Matthiessen, gay marriage, Russell Cheney, vintage gay photo
