That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, vintage photography
Click to Click to listen to male vocal: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Dear Peter, Something always brings me back to you. It never takes too long. No matter what I say or do, I’ll still feel you here ’til the moment I’m gone. You hold me without touch, keep me without chains. [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: DADT, gay, gays in the military, Gravity, heartbreak, military, Sara Bareilles, vintage gay photo
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 [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
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 [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,lesbian,photography,Uncategorized,word
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. [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: gay, gays in the military, Jonathan Kemp, vintag, 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 [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: F.O. Matthiessen, gay marriage, Russell Cheney, vintage gay photo
there are so many tictoc clocks everywhere telling people what toctic time it is for tictic instance five toc minutes toc past six tic Spring is not regulated and does not get out of order nor do its hands a little jerking move over numbers slowly we do not wind it up it has no [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: beach, e.e. cummings, gay kiss, kiss, vintage gay photo
In my Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it, I’ll be the grandest lady fellow in the Easter Parade. You’ll be all in clover, and when they look me over You’ll be the proudest fellow in the Easter Parade. On the Avenue, Fifth Avenue, The photographers will snap us And you’ll find that you’re [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Easter bonnet, Easter Parade, Irving Berlin, 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
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: ee cummings, i carry your heart with me, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
