Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be distinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling… Text: excerpt from ‘The Shuttle,’ 1907, Frances Hodgson Burnett Image: photographer, subjects, unknown
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Tagged: sailors, vintage gay photo
Hand in glove, we can go wherever we please And everything depends upon how near you stand to me And if the people stare, then the people stare Oh, I really don’t know and I really don’t care Image: photographer, subjects, unknown Text: excerpt, ‘Hand in Glove,’ the Smiths
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Tagged: lyrics, military, vintage gay photo
I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of land mines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come […]
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Tagged: Ivan E. Coyote, vintage lesbian photo
After we retired and I was convinced by his poor attempt at snoring that he was not asleep, I gently placed by arm around his great manly form. This was enough. He turned toward me, placed his arms around my neck, pressed his lips against my own and — forgot to snore. For once […]
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He was far too tasteful and far too clever, a young man of very good society, too, to make a fool of himself by acting as if he thought that his abandonment was some great tragedy. After all when his friend had said to him, “We two will have love forever”– both the one who […]
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Tagged: Abandonment, Cavafy, gay, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, vintage photography
baby, you’re a firework Text: Excerpt, Firework, Lyric by Katy Perry and Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Wilhelm, Ester Dean Image: Photographer, subjects, unknown; via queering on tumblr
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Tagged: Firework, gay, Katy Perry, lesbian, lyrics, vintage gay photo, vintage lesbian photo, vintage photography
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron […]
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Tagged: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, vintage gay photo, vintage male affection, vintage photography
By whose direction found’st thou out this place? By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far As that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise. …I wish […]
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Tagged: Shakespeare, vintage gay photo
In celebration of the historic vote on 24 June, 2011 in which New York lawmakers legalized same-sex marriage. i do what greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined together to strengthen each other in all labour, to minister to each other in all sorrow, to share […]
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Tagged: Adam Bede, Andrew M. Cuomo, gay marriage, George Eliot, New York, vintage gay photo
