I mean not every picture with two blokes = gay, obviously. There are ‘bromance’ best bud vintage pics, pictures of brothers, work colleagues, people who fought together etc. You can’t always read a modern sense of gay into times where the word and the ideas were different.

But it’s annoying when that ‘proviso’ is kicked in automatically as some just are, well, obviously queer in modern and older senses…there is a movement amongst some to play down gay history, it happens drip by drip when somebody dies and their partner isn’t mentioned, or no-one talks about their ‘special uncle’, or deluded people question the evidence because of personal biases.

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