This makes me really, really happy.
Thanks Stacy and Michele
Tagged: bears, gay, Glee, Say A Little Prayer
Category Archives: music
ride me like a wave 0
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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
lick them from my pores
dry me with delusion and desire
ride me [...]
Categories: gay, imagined histories, lesbian, music, photography
Tagged: gay, lesbian, love, sailors, vintage, vintage gay photo
men behind bars: you would have done the same 0
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
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
goin’ to the dance with you 0
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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 goin’ to the dance [...]
Categories: gay, imagined histories, music, photography, word
Tagged: gay, Roller skating, Shawn Ryan, vintage male affection
wild horses 1
Susan Boyle’s graceful, prepossessing rendition of the Rolling Stones’ Wild Horses just hit the airwaves. Here, I’ve matched it up with a 1930’s photo of a man who, in my mind, won’t leave his lover, despite everything.
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I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided [...]
Categories: imagined histories, music, photography, word
Tagged: America's Got Talent, Britain's Got Talent, horseback, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Susan Boyle, vintage photo, Wild Horses
being a man in a dress, meeting william weston 2
People around here don’t generally fancy men like me. They have a hard time understanding my attire, and I suppose it’s usual for folks not to know what to make of someone male who prefers a wardrobe normally assigned to the fairer sex. I always saw myself as fairer. I still do.
When I was five [...]
Categories: gay, imagined histories, music, photography, word
Tagged: crossdressing, gay, imagined history, vintage male affection, wax cylinder
i am too afraid to be without him, and so here we are 0
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There was only ever one reason I agreed to go out with Lillian, which was so that I could go out with Christopher. On double dates, you see. A cruel thing to do to her, yes, but Chris stopped “us”– him and I being together, [...]
Categories: gay, imagined histories, music, photography, word
Tagged: gay, vintage male affection
