vintage
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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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Angus McBean
Self-portrait. Vintage bromide print, 1953. Mounted to thin card inscribed “Love Angus.”
One of a series of surrealist self-portrait Christmas cards. -
Between a rock…
How I wish Jedward would try this now….
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Lovely! Alexei von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864–1941; worked in Germany 1896–1914 and 1922–1941; worked in Switzerland 1914–1922)
The Old Man (Yellow Beard), 1912 it sez here!Jawlensky
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Lt Colonel William Campbell, 1865 – More vintage kilts courtesy of X Marks the Scot.
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Love Aaron Smith’s paintings – old and new at the same time.
Aaron Smith “Diddy”, 2011, oil on panel, 24” x 24”
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Two men on the deck of a ship (c. 1890)
Two men on the deck of a ship (c. 1890) via National Media Museum
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Picture of General Lee from Old Virginia Blog
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Sir Francis Caradoc. 1890s
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Last Beard In Marienbad?*
* yes I know awful joke, but not as bad as the film, I watched that. Once. I can never get that time back.