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
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills and fields, Woods, or steepy mountains yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds […]
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Tagged: 70s, affectionate, Christopher Marlowe, men, mustache, vintage gay photo, woods
on this day when there’s no holiness in all this madness of tests where the heart is with the sharpest brass knife let us carve a tiny star on each other’s chest watch them light up bright red we will bless them with our lips drink life neither a seven-year itch nor death can split […]
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Tagged: assotto saint, valentine, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
If time holds a miracle we’ll dance together as two old men: sunstroke scalps dropped buttocks, watery thighs. But our hands how our bony, veiny, trembling hands will find their partners palm to palm, fingers rung round each other and hold on tight tight. Dance me dance me across the floor I’ll stay with you […]
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Tagged: Bil Wright, 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 […]
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Tagged: F.O. Matthiessen, gay marriage, Russell Cheney, vintage gay photo
Now when I am near to you, dear friend, Passing out of myself, being delivered — Through those eyes and lips and hands, so loved, so ardently loved, I am become free; In the sound of your voice I dwell As in a world defended from evil. When I am accounted by the world to […]
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Tagged: boxers, Edward Carpenter, gay poetry, vintage gay photo
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
Because he had a sparse moustache growing across his upper lip, a thin precursor to manhood, an almost man— because he smelled like cigarettes, I loved Chris Muller that year. I loved Chris Muller the day he asked me into the locker room, beyond the urinals and benches, through the narrow hallway of sweat and […]
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Tagged: Angelo Nikolopoulos, Ganymede, poem, The Fifth Grade, vintage bicycle, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, vintage photography
Click to hear song: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I fell in love with your sound Oh I love to sing along with you… Babe we both had dry spells Hard times in bad lands I’m a good man – for ya I’m a good man… Last night there was a horse in […]
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Tagged: cowboy, Good Man, Josh Ritter, lyrics, music, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection
