bromance
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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.
00806 varones (by VARONES!)
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Victorian daddy bears, oh my!
Oh right they are just ‘friends’ showing their 1800’s ‘bromance’ are they? Pssst, yeah right…how long will historians pull that one?
00049 varones by VARONES! on Flickr.
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Between a rock…
How I wish Jedward would try this now….
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Homoerotic? NAH. Just Bromance. *snigger*
Falguiere
(via vooduud3)
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I LOVE harkavagrant aka beattona I’ve been following her on LJ for yars and yars!
I can imagine Edgar being a bit of a killjoy when it came to bromance, whereas Jules ROCKS.
harkavagrant.com
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ca. 1855, [Portrait of Daniel Gilbert and Betson Gordon]
via the Daniel Weber Collection at George Eastman House on Flickr
Victorians had bromance so hard to ascribe a gay context, but this is pretty queer 🙂
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Here comes trouble…(well for Oscar anyhoos). Wonder if his brother was gay too?
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas and Francis Douglas