Hundreds of photographs om the 19th and 20th centuri offer a glimpse at the life of gay men durg a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
Contents:
- 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- 5 FACTS BEHD THE "GAY" EAR
- 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
- 30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
- WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?
- SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
- THE 1970S “GAY-CURE” EXPERIMENTS WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
Gay love has taken many forms human history, om Socrat' mentorship of his younger lovers, to the artistic passn between Rimbd and Verlae, to morn-day gay celebry upl and their adorable children. Dpe what many hate groups would like to have you believe, gay love is jt as natural and betiful as straight, whether middle-school csh or long-term relatnships. The Advote has all the latt on gay love and sex, om historil viewpots of LGBT relatnships throughout time to verage of a Hollywood that is fally reprentg the diverse bety of LGBT relatnships. * gay lobe *
Origatg 1960s Japan, where was known as “yaoi,” BL typilly picts two men a homoerotic relatnship. Some LGBTQ activists have acced BL stori of fetishizg and appropriatg gay culture. Wily regnized as South Korea’s first openly gay K-pop artist, the sger and actor Go Tae-seob, who the stage name Holland, starred a BL drama last year and believ that the growg visibily of BL books, TV seri and movi is a posive step.
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
The “gay” ear refers to when men pierced their right earlobe the 1970s to show the world they were gay. Here are more facts om Pri Palace about the “gay” ear. * gay lobe *
Bdette, who also intifi as gay and is a longstandg BL fan, said the genre will shake up nservative views on genr and sexualy South Korea. “Whether you are a heterosexual woman tryg to ject your sexual tonomy to the world, or you are a gay man who wants to see posive reprentatns of male-male romance, BL n be ed,” he said. A the time, Douglas was a torrid love affair wh the famoly gay thor Osr Wil, and his poem lyrilly scrib homosexualy as "the love that dare not speak s name.
The word lavenr was ed as slang referrg to gay men sce the 1920s, but has some troubled 20th-century history.
5 FACTS BEHD THE "GAY" EAR
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As Prologue Magaze explas, this was a reactn to creasg awarens of homosexualy, leadg to thoands of gay workers beg forced out of feral jobs. Gay people were characterized as risks and associated wh munists by Senator Joseph McCarthy (y, that McCarthy). The move was met wh stiff opposn, among both straight and gay femists.
100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
Gay love songs where men sg about men, cludg tracks om Troye Sivan, MNEK and more. * gay lobe *
Even proment gay figur like Elton John were volved lavenr marriag. It feels like a ftg tribute that now, sce gay marriage has bee legal and accepted, lavenr ros are often ed to adorn same-sex weddgs.
Red ros are wily known as a symbol of romance, but they n also refer to romance between gay men.
30 GAY LOVE SONGS: MEN SGG ABOUT MEN
Which ear is the gay earrg? You might rell hearg that if a man wore an earrg on the right ear, that meant he was gay. At the same time, the left ear is straight. * gay lobe *
As CBR explas, Japan is home to a whole manga genre, wrten by and for gay and bi men, lled Bara (薔薇, lerally meang "rose"). The lk between gay men and ros Japan dat back to the 1960s, acrdg to the book "Homosexualy and Manls Postwar Japan, " and was started by a llectn of homoerotic photography lled Bara Kei, loosely translated as "Oral of the Ros. " This associatn led to the creatn of a magaze for gay men, lled Barazoku (via John Coulthart).
WHICH EAR IS THE GAY EARRG? WHICH EAR IS THE STRAIGHT EAR?
Here are some remarkable films which have impacted society posively by breakg boundari wh their reprentatns of gay men on screen. * gay lobe *
Seemgly, the artistic efforts were ma to reclaim the word rose, which was origally ed as a pejorative for gay men Japan. Knowg all of this, be a lot more noticeable that male characters anime who're implied to be gay are sometim shown holdg a rose.
SOME OF THE GREATT GAY LOVE STORI MOVI
Known English as Jsie and Jam, they rry a lot of queer subtext wh them and, as Gay Star News pots out, Jam is heavily implied to be gay. In the late 19th century, green rnatns beme a wily unrstood symbol for gay men, popularised by none other than Osr Wil. As Columbia Journalism Review not, the word queer was first ed to mean homosexual 1894 which, whether or not by cince, was shortly after "Lady Wrmere's Fan" was first published.
Acrdg to Anime Femist, the word yuri was origally popularised the 1970s by the gay men's magaze Barazoku, g the word yurizoku 百合族 (lily tribe) for a sectn where they published letters om women rears. Acrdg to the New Gay Tim, Page was the creator of the now well-known bi pri flag, wh s magenta, lavenr, and blue lors.
THE 1970S “GAY-CURE” EXPERIMENTS WRTEN OUT OF SCIENTIFIC HISTORY
As JSTOR Daily explas, they beme associated wh gay men the early 1900s, particularly those who were flamboyantly drsed.
The public performanc New York's Tim Square, Greenwich Village, and Harlem beme known around the world, helpg to ph awarens of gay culture to the mastream by the 1930s.
At some pot, the word pansy began to be ed as a pejorative for gay men.