Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] hide me in your hollows taste the salt that clings to me shipwrecked in your shadows scented by the sea hide me in the wisdom of your thighs ride me like a wave chart my secret places navigate my shores map the ocean’s traces [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,lesbian,music,photography
Tagged: gay, lesbian, love, sailors, vintage, vintage gay photo
The L.A. Gay Men’s Chorus with an all-male take on the Cell Block Tango from Kander and Ebb’s Chicago.
Tagged: Cell Block Tango, Chicago, gay, Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles, GMCLA, Kander and Ebb
WHEN I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow’d; And else, when I carous’d, or when my plans were accomplish’d, still I was not happy; But the day when I rose at dawn [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem,word
Tagged: bed, gay, love, vintage, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, vintage photography, Walt Whitman, WHEN I heard at the close of the day
“Argentine Tango is to lead and follow, to step to & fro, to turn right & left, to move together as one body. To Tango is to trust, to pause, to dance in a close embrace, articulating the unfolding of desire into passion.” — Dr. Hugo Heyrman Film: All-male dance sequence from ‘Tango,’ written and [...]
Categories: choreography,dance,film,gay,video
Tagged: Carlos Rivarola, Carlos Saura, dance, gay, Julio Bocca, tango
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
Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The rain may fall, the wind may blow, it may get down to 20 below, But I don’t mind ’cause I’m goin’ to the dance with you. The rent’s unpaid, the cupboard’s bare, I don’t mind, I won’t despair ‘Cause I’m in love and [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,music,photography,word
Tagged: gay, Roller skating, Shawn Ryan, vintage male affection
A Single Man, the classic gay novel by Christopher Isherwood, is going from page to screen in a project directed by fashion god Tom Ford and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. This is terrifically exciting and long overdue. The movie had its world premiere last week at the Venice Film Festival and all reports [...]
Categories: book,film,gay,video
Tagged: A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, David Scearce, gay, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival
Alan Cumming closed an eight-night run in London’s West End last night. I Bought a Blue Car Today, his one-man show of songs and anecdotes, is nothing less than sublime. From the minute the curtain rises and he breaks instantly into an exhilarating version of Shine that rivals Cyndi Lauper’s original, he’s hooked you. Cumming [...]
Categories: gay,music,review,stage,theatre
Tagged: Alan Cumming, cabaret, Cyndi Lauper, Dolly parton, gay, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Highline Ballroom, I Bought A Blue Car Today, John Cameron Mitchell, Lance Horne, London, Mika, New York, West End, X-Men
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
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet. But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you [...]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: gay, vintage male affection, vintage photo, Yeats
