A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
Back from Christmas break, Happy New Year to all from Woolf and Wilde.
Text: Edgar A. Guest
Image: Photographer, [...]
Categories: gay, imagined histories, photography, poem
Tagged: 2010, men, New Year, tuxedo, vintage, vintage gay photo
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 drinking, on the turf or the [...]
Categories: gay, imagined histories, photography, word
Tagged: men, poetry, vintage, Walt Whitman
