It was my turn to decide, I knew this was our time. No one else will have me like you do, No one else will have me, only you. You’ll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time, What are you hoping for? I’m here and now I’m ready, Holding on tight. Text: […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,word
Tagged: Jimmy Eat World, men dancing, sailors
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
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
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 […]
Categories: artist,imagined histories,photography,vintage,word
A screen, pitch black. A letterbox opens, two eyes peering through all gloryhole curious. Pull back, sharply yanked. The door caves kicked in. Trilbied police thunder through. “Dear oh dear oh dear. Somebody here’s been playing silly buggers” smirks a suave D.C. surveying the still warm corpses of playwright Joe Orton and his murdering, then […]
Tagged: Alan Bennett, Dom Agius, Gary Oldman, Joe Orton, John Lahr, Prick Up Your Ears, Stephen Frears
‘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
the Constant furiku i redheart you colour of my blood rushing to my head i redheart you i redheart you thinking all about you what’s a boy gotta do? i redheart you if my blood is all i have in each & every instant my love for you & my heartbeat are the only constant […]
Tagged: Aruan Duval, Bladerunner, Dom Agius, Furiku, Mick Guihen, The Constant, Torch Song
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
