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Contents:

• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
• OLD GAY UPLE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• MATURE GAY UPLE KISSG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG
• AMAZG VTAGE PHOTOS OF GAY AND LBIAN COUPL
• '100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE
• 17 INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MEN IN LOVE FROM THE 1850S TO 1950S WHEN BEG GAY WAS ILLEGAL

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s. Gay Rights,. Taken around 1920, showed two men ont of a hoe, posg a lovg embrace at a time when beg gay was not only owned upon but effectively illegal.

“It’s very heart-warmg and gratifyg to know that ’s meangful, and that this spans om someone who’s 18 or 20 right up to grandparents who are lookg at (the pictur) bee their grandchildren are gay.

Or ’s an elrly gay person, or straight people – the whole gamut, ” Treadwell said.

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

This is pecially prevalent when to love between gay upl, wh some people gog as far as llg “somethg lennials vented”.

Tired of this prejudice, former prit Nathan Monk has llected a seri of vtage photos of gay upl, provg they were always there but were aaid of openly showg their feelgs. Check out the adorable vtage photos of gay upl the gallery below! The Victorian Era marked a huge shift the treatment of homosexualy.

PHOTOGRAPHS REVEAL EVERYDAY LIFE OF GAY UPL THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The Brish had been plete nial about the prence of homosexualy wh their untry. Durg the 19th century the silence England was broken, and police began actively fightg the "problem" of homosexualy.

However, the laws were selectively applied and th were not a great threat to gay men, as long as they were discreet and avoid sndal.

Gay men were monly seen by society as perverts who had chosen their sexualy, or as diseased dividuals whose sexualy was ed by their upbrgg and blogy, and not somethg they were born wh. Doctors and psychologists, believg that homosexualy uld be cured, tried methods such as hypnosis and aversn therapy.

OLD GAY UPLE STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

A late 19th century gay uple. A middle-aged gay uple the late 1800s. Gay uple the 1850s-60s.

Gay uple the late 1800s Ameri. A gay uple, 1878.

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MATURE GAY UPLE KISSG STOCK PHOTOS AND IMAG

Gay men om the 1800s.

AMAZG VTAGE PHOTOS OF GAY AND LBIAN COUPL

Portras of pri: Touchg photographs reveal everyday life of gay upl the early 20th Century - before the closet door opened French screenwrer Sébastien Lifshz spent 20 years llectg photos om flea markets and garage salThey proudly portray alternative sexualy the U. And Europe at a time when many had to hi their te feelgs'The need to keep a memory of their love was stronger than the disapproval of neighbourhood photo lab', he said Published: 12:46 BST, 29 June 2014 | Updated: 14:47 BST, 30 June 2014 Advertisement It seems ordary enough - a photo album of upl exchangg everyday affectn their garns, their kchens, bed and the what mak the imag so touchg is that the upl were almost certaly gay, at a time when to be so was illegal many parts of the wtern screenwrer Sébastien Lifshz took more than 20 years to amass his llectn om flea markets and garage sal, where he beme fascated wh the reee happs of people who were often outsts society. Careee: French screenwrer Sébastien Lifshz spent more than 20 years llectg hundreds of photos om flea markets and garage sal which portrayed gay upl their everyday liv - at a time when what they did behd closed doors was illegal.

Mr Lifshz said he was fascated by their wealth of love and affectn Ambiguo: Bee he never knew the upl himself, Mr Lifshz uld not be sure if they were gay, bisexual or transgenr, or simply revellg sexual eedom Bee he never knew the upl himself, he uld not be sure if they were gay, bisexual or transgenr, or simply revellg sexual ambiguy and eedom. 'What astonished me was that their middle-class appearance didn’t match the act: the act of producg an image of homosexual love at a time when discretn was the norm, ' he said. Homosexualy remaed illegal Bra until 1967, and was only classified as an illns the U.

'Gay upl had plenty of reasons to be discreet the early 1900s. Homosexualy remaed illegal Bra until 1967, and was only classified as a mental illns the U. A mt-RSS new blog, Homo History, seeks to prerve our, well, homo history, by archivg vtage photos of gay and lbian upl taken between the late-1800s and mid-20th century.

'100 YEARS OF MEN LOVE': NEW FILM UNEARTHS OLD STORI OF GAY ROMANCE

On Instct, the thor of the se, Jerry Gent, explas his tent behd the project:“The photos reprent jt a small agment of our gay and lbian history.

… Sce most of the men and women the photos are unknown, ’s hard to know for sure if they were a gay uple or jt ‘good iends. ’ For every photo that I may have mistakenly intified as gay, thoands more were burned or torn to piec to keep a fay secret… I hope that by sharg the photos of vtage gay and lbian upl, we n rrect the social jtice that they endured by seeg them a brand new light.

17 INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW MEN IN LOVE FROM THE 1850S TO 1950S WHEN BEG GAY WAS ILLEGAL

After the Stonewall Rts New York Cy, people celebrated wh gay pri march the 1970s. Gay pri 1970. Gay pri march across the untry quickly beme a celebratn that weled people of any lor, relign, or sexual orientatn.

Gay pri. Members of the Jewish muny pose for a photo at gay pri.

Gay pri wasn't only held the US, however.