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
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“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s.
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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.
SEE PHOTOS OF GAY MEN LOVE DATG BACK TO THE 1850S
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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 *
”The pos, facial exprsns, and body language of the men below will strike the morn viewer as very gay ed.
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.
Thkg of men as eher “homosexual” or “heterosexual” beme mon. As this new nceptn of homosexualy as a stigmatized and onero intifier took root Amerin culture, men began to be much more reful to not send msag to other men, and to women, that they were gay. At the same time, also may expla why untri wh a more nservative, relig culture, such as Ai or the Middle East, where men do engage homosexual acts, but still nsir homosexualy the “crime that nnot be spoken, ” remas mon for men to be affectnate wh one another and fortable wh thgs like holdg hands as they walk.
HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED
Whether the men below were gay the way our current culture unrstands that ia, or the way that they themselv unrstood , is unknowable.
The men’s very fortable and faiar pos and body language might make the men look like gay lovers to the morn eye — and they uld very well have been — but that was not the msage they were sendg at the time. Bee homosexualy, even if thought of as a practice rather than an inty, was not somethg publicly exprsed, the men were not knowgly outg themselv the shots; their pos were mon, and simply reflected the timacy and tensy of male iendships at the time — none of the photos would have ed their ntemporari to bat an the thor of Picturg Men, John Ibson, nducted a survey of morn day portra studs to ask if they had ever had two men e to have their photo taken, he found that the event was so rare that many of the photographers he spoke to had never seen happen durg their reer. The snapshots ually were veloped by someone else who would have gotten a look at all of them, so aga, the pictur were not likely purposeful exprsns of gay love, but rather ptured the very mon level of fort men felt wh one another durg the early 20th of the reasons male iendships were so tense durg the 19th and early 20th centuri, is that socializatn was largely separated by sex; men spent most their time wh other men, women wh other women.