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 […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,lesbian,photography,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: Adam Bede, Andrew M. Cuomo, gay marriage, George Eliot, New York, vintage gay photo
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: e.e. cummings, i like my body when it is with your, poem, Threshold, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
I want to cry my pain and I am telling you so you will love me and cry for me in a nightfall of nightingales with a dagger, with kisses and with you. I want to kill the only witness to the assassination of my flowers and change my weeping and my sweating into an […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: Frederico Garcia Lorca, poem, sailors, The Poet Speaks the Truth, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
If he asks about me, trace on the ground a cross of silence and ashes over the impure name that afflicts me. If he asks about me, say that I have died and that I am decaying beneath the ants. Tell him that I am a branch of an orange tree, the simple weather vane […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: bathtub, Emilio Ballagas, gay, man, vintage photo
It’s been hot, Also very sweet. And I’m not usually indiscreet. But when he sparkles, The earth begins to sway. What more can I say? How can I express How confused am I by our happiness? I can’t eat breakfast, I cannot tie my shoe. What more can I do? If I said I love […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: Falsettoland, gay, vintage male affection, vintage photo, William Finn
The recent death of Ted Kennedy prompted me to pick up some of the Kennedy books I have lying around the house and I have just re-read a book about JFK that shook my world a couple of years ago. It illuminates a story about a beloved president that was never told prior to this […]
Categories: book,gay,Uncategorized
Tagged: biography, David Pitts, Edward Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, gay, Jack and Lem, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy
Woolf & Wilde has spun off into two separate blogs. Kenneth Hill is now the sole editor of Woolf & Wilde, while Dom Agius and Predrag Pajdic have launched The Pandorian.
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Tagged: Dom Agius, Kenneth Hill
