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19th century gay photos

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NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * 19th century gay photos *

“Lovg” featur around 300 photos that offer an timate look at gay relatnships between the 1850s and 1950s.

Gay Rights,. The Victorian Era marked a huge shift the treatment of homosexualy.

BUT WERE THEY GAY? THE MYSTERY OF SAME-SEX LOVE THE 19TH CENTURY

* 19th century gay photos *

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.

HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

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Gay men om the 1800s. Sometim the dience wrongly nclus that the men were exprsg their closeted gay tennci for the mera. Men were ee to have affectnate man relatnships wh each other whout fear of beg lled “gay” bee the ncept of homosexualy as we know today didn’t exist then.

Ameri didn’t have the strict straight or gay dichotomy that currently exists.

Men and women basilly lived separate homosocial worlds until they got married.

HISTORIC PHOTOS OF AIN-AMERIN GAY MEN UNEARTHED

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