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Fry: portrait of the social reformer Edward Carpenter.
And out queer man! Don’t forget that! Rather important for the time…
Not seen this portrait before, I’ve posted photos of him from later years on this tumblr.
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Stop Gay Racism & Internalised Homophobia: The iGays Are Way Too Sick: TURN OFF THE LIFE SUPPORT!
Stop Gay Racism & Internalised Homophobia: The iGays Are Way Too Sick: TURN OFF THE LIFE SUPPORT!
Sadly a lot of truth here…so many entitlement issues and assimilation in the gay scene – I suspect a lot of the gay marriage stuff is coming from that standpoint too, as queer who doesn’t fit bodily or my relationships I expect my lifestyle will be thrown to the dogs when those queers get their Great Dark Man and 2.4 kittens. And that’s the problem – Quentin Crisp’s Great Dark Man is a fantasy, doesn’t exist. Too many people trying to conform to a stereotype or large set of ideals which leads to unhappiness – a lot of the other profile sites are full of ‘wants’ and ticklist of what they physically want in a partner…I doubt they’d ever find it.
People aren’t like that, they’re not Adonises, and if they are then they probably go to the gym too much and have no life/personality.
Disagree with the versatile/bottom comments – yes a lot of men want to be fucked by a Great Dark Man in the gay scene…but if you lose or alter the performance hangup you can be a different sort of sexual partner, free your mind, lose the porn face & dialog and sex work ethic and explore…strict roles are for porn or SM. And you can be truly versatile – but not if you have a weird idea of ubermensch Super Top with an attitude problem…that won’t work. Rarely does anyway, those people are usually full of shit ot flaky. Or actually bottoms in disguise.
stopracismandhomophobiaongrindr:
WARNING: THIS POST IS ABOUT AS DARK AS I GET, DON’T READ IT WITHOUT HAVING YOUR GUARD UP. I’M ALSO WELL AWARE THERE ARE MORE ASPECTS TO GAY LIFE THAN JUST THIS PERSPECTIVE – BUT RIGHT NOW THIS IS THE ONE I’M GIVING SOME AIR TIME.
I literally have no hope left for the gay community. I’m 37,…
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Waaaaaaaaalt Whiiiitmaaaaan
Nope no gay subtext here. Nope. None…
(Waaaaaaaaalt Whiiiitmaaaaan & Peter Doyle, who sadly didn’t get a My Robot Friend song about him. Must be mad).
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I know it’s easy to read in a gay subtext into those Victorian ‘bromance’ pictures but this one takes the cake – they can’t be just ‘friends’?!?
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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 – Welsh photographer, 1941. Amazing both his portraits and how I’m not really aware of his work. I suspect being a gay man who was imprisoned under the sodomy laws (although Gielgud was caught importuning and it didn’t do his career any harm – didn’t get jail time though?) affected his later image….but he did take that famous picture of the Beatles looking down from a block of flats that was used on the cover of Please Please Me.
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I may be as queer as they cum but even I can see Louise Brooks *had* something.
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Jane Bowles by Carl Van Vechten.
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Anna May Wong by Carl Van Vechten, April 1932
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Nice sandals!
I never knew Edward Carpenter lived in Guildford just above the station…but here he is in his writing ‘hut’ in the 1920s.
You’d not know that now, and with Guildford not even having a gay bar nowadays his history is pretty much hidden. He died there in 1929.
And sweetly and amazingly not only is his lover George Merill buried with him, the gravestone mentions their 40 years together, how radical is that for 1929?!?
