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
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
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
CHOICE soul, in whom, as in a glass, we see, Mirrored in thy pure form and delicate, What beauties heaven and nature can create, The paragon of all their works to be! Fair soul, in whom love, pity, piety, Have found a home, as from thy outward state We clearly read, and are so rare […]
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‘Je crois qu’il profita, pour son évasion, d’une migration d’oiseaux sauvages.’ Text: Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Photo: Cole Rise
Categories: book,photography,word
Tagged: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, cole rise, Le Petit Prince, things i love
it’s this way, man: drop in a film, get yourself a flashcube, pop it on. take one! take two! take three! take four flash pictures (!) without changing bulbs. in color of course. tv commercial for Kodak Instamatic, 1965-66
Categories: advertising,photography,video
Tagged: 1960s, camera, dancing, kodak, things i love, tv commercial
Photographer Katie Hawkins has undertaken an ambitious three-part project in an effort to promote marriage equality and to raise awareness about issues affecting LGBT families. Through exhibitions of LGBT family portraits, a book of photographs and family stories plus a documentary, Hawkins aims to “help people view their previous conception of family through a new […]
Categories: gay,photography,queer
Tagged: family, Katie Hawkins, lesbian, LGBT, photography, portrait, things i love
We two boys together clinging, One the other never leaving, Up and down the roads going — North and South excursions making, Power enjoying — elbows stretching — fingers clutching, Arm’d and fearless — eating, drinking, sleeping, loving, No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, Misers, menials, priests alarming — air breathing, water […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: men, poetry, vintage, Walt Whitman
