Philly gay boys donned their sexit sailor threads for the Boys of Summer 2013 kickoff jam. Click to see photos.
Contents:
- PHOTOS: SEXY GAY SAILORS TAKE OVER THE MOSHULU
- WHEN GAY SAILOR WAS OUTED, HE FOUND HIS NAVY BUDDI HAD HIS BACK
- WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
- GAY SAILORS MEME GENERATOR
PHOTOS: SEXY GAY SAILORS TAKE OVER THE MOSHULU
* gay sailor picture *
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.
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 *
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. 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?
WHAT TO EXPECT OM YOUR GAY SAILG HOLIDAY?
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.
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. 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.
GAY SAILORS MEME GENERATOR
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 Before "don't ask, don't tell" was officially repealed for gay, lbian, and bisexual ary personnel 2011, a photo of a male Mare drag uld have land him hot water.