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Maybe it’s that clothing was at one time more dignified and well-tailored than it is today. Maybe it’s that they are a reminder that Gays actually existed before the 80s, when I was born (But in all honesty, did anything really “exist” before I was born? Did anything really exist before you were born? Probably not). I don’t know what it is about these images that is reassuring. I could totally see someone wearing these fashions today, with the same haircut. It’s funny how these styles have totally been recycled. This couple looks like they had a cold, complicated relationship. Gay and black at the turn-of-the-century. I bet they sent this out with their Christmas card.
VINTAGE GAY MEN PICTURES MOVIE
“They went to war for our country, but the true battle was for each other’s hearts.” That will be the tagline for the movie version I plan on making of this photo. This is your classic Daddy with the Pool Boy combo. Maybe it’s the cute hat and the fitted pants, I have no idea. But gays have loved it since the beginning of time. There is something inherently Gay about the sailor costume. Yes, the do look alike which is slightly creepy, but still a cute photo. Someday I will manipulate my boyfriend into doing this. I don’t know what is happening here but I think I like it. Doing a total WeHo Party Photo Booth pose. Sure, there’s no proof that any of these guys are actually couples, but what is the point of looking back on history if you can’t mold it to fit your modern-day agenda? Thus, for the purpose of this post I will be assuming all these guys are Gay, and that they had great relationships and loved each other until they died, happy as clams. Not only is their style totally unique and exciting, the fact that they were forced to love each other in secret makes these photographs all the more titillating. However, there is one type of couple it’s impossible to hate. And if you’re experiencing it, you can’t hide it.With Valentines Day upon us, many of us have couple-hatred on the mind. There is an unmistakable look that two people have when they are in love.
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Nini and Treadwell admit that “friendship photos” between men were not uncommon a hundred years ago, so they’ve avoided those and have come up with rules to determine when deciding if a snapshot is “loving.” “We look into their eyes. The sweetness of the images is palpable, and may even startle in their brazenness, such as the photo of the men holding a preprinted sign that reads: “Not Married But Willing to Be.” Yet, when thumbing through the book, you may scoff and think: Maybe it’s just guys horsing around (despite the kissing and legs wrapped around in intimate bedroom or picnic scenes) or that we’re unfairly placing our contemporary notions upon innocent, youthful friendships. Soon they began actively looking for these photos that spoke to them and felt they were on “some kind of rescue mission.” They’ve accumulated more than 3,000 photographs that they found in shoe boxes, estate sales, family archives, flea markets, and online auctions, and the collection includes daguerreotypes, glass negatives, tin types, photo postcards, and simple snapshots from all over the world: Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United States (with a considerable amount sourced from Bulgaria). Taking such a photo, during a time when they would have been less understood than they would today, was not without risk.” … The open expression of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination. The couple explain in the book’s foreword that they began collecting over 20 years ago, when they discovered a vintage photo dating from somewhere around the 1920s in an antique shop in Dallas, that they thought was “one of a kind.” As they write: “These two men, in front of a house, were embracing and looking at one another in a way that only two people in love would do. The book, subtitled A Photographic History of Men in Love, is a visual narrative that reveals tender moments between men - 19th-century working-class guys, fashionably dressed businessmen, university students, soldiers, sailors, and many more - through benign, vernacular portraiture. But I was reminded of this impulse and drive to collect obscure photos when I flipped through the pages of Loving, a gorgeous new monograph composed of hundreds of photos of men from the 1850s to 1950s amassed by Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell. Or why it continues to hold us spellbound. Now that we are bombarded by billions of images and everyone is a wanna-be avant-garde pocket picture maker, it’s easy for us to forget that until very recently photography was rejected as something with lesser aesthetic value.