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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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with the cape it makes me think more of a gay superhero. WILDEMAN IS HERE! Or would it be Dorian Gray, whose double life is as the immortal Prettyboy who uses his good looks to knock villains out?
Photograph of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony.
I remember seeing this picture posted in a blog (I think in Dolly Macabre) with the caption “Wilde’s got swag.” Now, whenever I see a picture of Wilde, that’s all I can think of… XD;;;
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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
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Ol’ Oscar. Did you know he was rumoured to have nothing but a beautiful blue chinese vases with lillies in them in his rooms at Oxford – I think certainly he decorated his room with those, but that rumour made me think of a bare room with nothing but a single vase, Dorian Gray style…where all one needed was art.
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What widens within you Walt Whitman?
I suppose no-one remembers My Robot Friend anymore? I feel old. Not as old as ol’ Walt, but getting there.
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Another picture of Edward Carpenter, probably at his cottage near Sheffield. Dig the sandals! Apparenly he was a big fan of the Rational Dress movement. He also happened to be an early gay activist and socialist practising free love and pacifism and vegetarianism in the late Victorian era and writing and publishing books – before and after Oscar Wilde, although the difference here is he preferred working class blokes, the issue with Oscar was he preferred his peers which caused scandal.
Anyway, Edward was a brave man.
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George Bernard Shaw might be known more for his fairies and later ideas, less is rather widely known about his love of the beach, nudism, photography and alleged gay dalliances when younger…he definitely turned a few heads as an Irish single man in London.