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 […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography
Tagged: affection, For What It's Worth, In Your Dreams, lesbian, Stevie Nicks, vintage photo, women
Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I fell in love with your sound Oh I love to sing along with you… Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I’m a good man – for ya I’m a good man… Last night there was a horse in […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography
Tagged: cowboy, Good Man, Josh Ritter, lyrics, music, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
Click for musical accompaniment: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] …I was stationed at Tinker Field in Oklahoma, and assigned a job in the command headquarters on the airbase. Evenings and weekends, I was now free to go into Oklahoma City, and when I was checking out the men’s room of one of the […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: air force, army, Doris Day, Edward Field, gays in the military, Les Brown Orchestra, My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time, vintage male affection, WWII
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
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
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
Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The rain may fall, the wind may blow, it may get down to 20 below, But I don’t mind ’cause I’m goin’ to the dance with you. The rent’s unpaid, the cupboard’s bare, I don’t mind, I won’t despair ‘Cause I’m in love and […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: gay, Roller skating, Shawn Ryan, vintage male affection
