Man's Country, Chigo's olst gay bathhoe, closed forever on New Year's Day 2018. Here's a last look si s hallowed halls.
Contents:
- NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
- SEE PHOTOS OF GAY MEN LOVE DATG BACK TO THE 1850S
- 11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
* historical gay pictures *
“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s.
SEE PHOTOS OF GAY MEN LOVE DATG BACK TO THE 1850S
This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years. * historical gay pictures *
Gay Rights,. Chigo's olst gay bathhoe closed forever on New Year's Day 2018. EtienneChigo lost a piece of gay history 2018, when Man's Country, the cy's olst bathhoe, closed s doors after 44 years.
Author and historian Owen Keehnen said the loss of Man's Country was "a gay versn of seeg the hoe you grew up torn down. A place of sexual liberatn, social ease wh beg gay and muny buildg. That’s so gay!
”The pos, facial exprsns, and body language of the men below will strike the morn viewer as very gay ed.
11 HISTORIL FIGUR YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE GAY
Christian fundamentalists ntue to ntend that homosexualy don't exist, and that gay people choose their liftyle whout any blogil predisposn. They further argue that homosexualy * historical gay pictures *
But is ccial to unrstand that you nnot view the photographs through the prism of our morn culture and current nceptn of homosexualy. The term “homosexualy” was fact not ed until 1869, and before that time, the strict dichotomy between “gay” and “straight” did not yet exist.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
It was a behavr — accepted by some cultur and nsired sful by at the turn of the 20th century, the ia of homosexualy shifted om a practice to a liftyle and an inty. You did not have temptatns towards a certa s, you were a homosexual person.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
Thkg of men as eher “homosexual” or “heterosexual” beme mon.