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PHOTOS: SEXY GAY SAILORS TAKE OVER THE MOSHULU

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Instantly regnisable mass media, the romance or homoerotism of the marer ss wh pop culture today. How has art ntributed to the gay male mythology of the sailor?

Conscly or unnscly, the artist offers the qutsential gay male fantasy om history. Gay bars ports around the world mirrored this, as did the spread of the queer language Polari (a way to speak openly and whout overtly crimatg yourself). Before the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967, they simply nnot explicly do this.

WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK

Fd out what a SAILORdus Gay Sailg Adventure is all about, and what you n expect om your active gay sailg holiday on the water. * gay sailor picture *

Instead, we project the gay male experience onto the figur. Bedazzled by the overt masculy and glamour of this image, do we prume the ster was eher gay or straight?

Here, too, we fd an explic lk wh gay male muni – the park was a well know cisg ground the neteenth and twentieth centuri. Gertler lived near Hampstead Heath om the wter of 1914–1915 – how nsc was he that the landspe he pated here was heavily d gay male sexualy? Aga, whether nsc or unnscly, the sailor ss visually wh a homoerotic landspe.

Male eroticism arguably echo wh this work, ma before the legaly of gay exprsn.

WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?

Where some may see a man at rt the eveng, others may see a d reference to gay male sexualy and cisg for sex hidn by night. Readg artworks om gay male perspectiv, however, n risk occupyg a two-dimensnal or prejudicial view on the gay male experience.

GAY SAILORS MEME GENERATOR

That to be gay, or rort to same-sex love or sire while at sea, is some sort of flt or sendary optn to beg heteronormative. Prumed or weaponised homoeroticism for edic effect masks a eper and more nuanced experience of gay male life that ntemporary dienc expect today – one that clus homo-affectnate iendship, romantic nnectn, and tersectnal inty. The UK's partial crimalisatn of homosexualy 1967 is exactly ntemporary wh this pictn of Sailors by Erich Kondrak.

Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water. "Lbian, gay, and bisexual ary personnel had been servg our untry for s whout receivg equal protectn, while transgenr troops are still prohibed om servg openly. "As a gay man, I n relate to what is still the opprsive stigma of homosexualy.

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PHOTOS: Sexy Gay Sailors Galore on the Boys of Summer Boat Party on the Moshulu | G Philly .

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