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• 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE
• GAY
• NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE
• GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF GAY MEN LOVE

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Gay Pri, 2006, San Francis. OUTstandg Amarillo promot empowerment and acceptance of the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr populatn of the Texas Panhandle by iatg dialogue, providg tn, and creatg support systems wh the ultimate goal of social change.

OUTstandg Amarillo OUTstandg Amarillo promot empowerment and acceptance of the gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr populatn of the Texas Panhandle by iatg dialogue, providg tn, and creatg support systems wh the ultimate goal of social change. That’s so gay! ”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. 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.

NEWLY PUBLISHED PORTRAS DOCUMENT A CENTURY OF GAY MEN LOVE

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. 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.

GAY HOLLYWOOD: 45 OUT AND PROUD LGBT STARS (PHOTOS)

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.