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. [...]
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Tagged: DADT, gay, gays in the military, Gravity, heartbreak, military, Sara Bareilles, vintage gay photo
RIP Rudolf Brazda. BERLIN — Rudolf Brazda, believed to be the last surviving person who was sent to a Nazi concentration camp because of his homosexuality, has died, a German gay rights group said Thursday. He was 98. more from the washington post ‘I Had Always Been Blessed with Good Fortune’ An inspiring profile [...]
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Tagged: gay, holocaust, nazi, pink triangle, rudolf brazda, vintage gay photo
i love this boy, not for his beauty only, but just because my life that was so lonely knows in his presence some strange healing power, an unfamiliar peace — as if each hour should pause a little in its swift-winged flight and breathe a benediction. in his bright blue eyes his happy spirit sits [...]
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Tagged: f.s. woodley, gay, male affection, military, soldiers, vintage gay photo, vintage photography
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. [...]
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Tagged: gay, gays in the military, Jonathan Kemp, vintag, vintage gay photo
You are a murderer No you are not, but really a wrestler Either way it’s just the same For from the ring of your entangled body Clean as leather, lustful as a lily Will nail me down On your stout neck like a column, like a pillar of tendons The thoughtful forehead (In fact, it’s [...]
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Tagged: gay, male affection, Mutsuo Takahashi, vintage gay photo, wrestlers, wrestling
I want to be the door in your jam– always close to your strong members. I want to swell with our humid love so we will be stuck together. Love-locked, your frame around my solid core, we’d never be jimmied apart. I want to be your vanity drawer, to hide my treasures in you. I [...]
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Tagged: Craig A. Reynolds, gay, sailors, vintage gay photo
One-year anniversary of falling in love with this video, this song, this man. Matt Alber’s ‘End of the World’ is romantic and heartbreakingly gorgeous. Since seeing this, I’ve never sat in a barber’s chair without thinking of (ok, wishing for) this moment. Matt Alber
There are few better vehicles for outing yourself as a gay-in-the-making than the Christmas list you write up for Santa. What’s on it says a lot. When I was a kid, I asked for things like watercolor sets, musical instruments and books. Hmmm. Equally revealing is what isn’t on your list. I never asked for [...]
Tagged: brothers, Christmas, coming out, dolls, gay, gender, outing, Santa, sterotypes, toys
