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 […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,lesbian,photography,Uncategorized,word
Tagged: Adam Bede, Andrew M. Cuomo, gay marriage, George Eliot, New York, 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
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the […]
Categories: gay,imagined histories,photography,poem
Tagged: gay marriage, maya angelou, paper moon, vintage photo
