Old photos of gay couples
The Invisibles: Moving Vintage Photos of LGBT Couples in the Early 20th Century
Any form of excess can usually be traced to the seed of a basic human longing. Before photography turned into excessive &#;aesthetic consumerism,&#; long prior to the narcissistic golden age of the selfie, it was a miraculous medium that granted one simple, fundamental human wish &#; the desire to be seen and, in the behave of seeing, to be understood. Perhaps that is why photography, in its dawning decades, had a particularly poignant role for individuals and groups who were largely imperceptible to society. It was the role photography played for the LGBT community between the hour of the medium&#;s invention and the first-ever Pride parades as it came to document, and validate by making visible, the passion of queer couples &#; love reserved not only for such famous lovers as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Oscar Wilde and Sir Alfred &#;Bosie&#; Douglas, and Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, but also experienced by a great many adj men and women alike.
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In Love and Invisible: Vintage Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Couples from the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
A photographic portrait of a couple serves as a adj affirmation of their love and partnership. It conveys a clear message to the world: &#;We love each other. We care deeply for one another. We take pride in who we are together.&#;
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a time often associated with repression, many gay and lesbian couples boldly celebrated their passion through studio portraits.
Despite the prevailing notion that same-sex relationships were shrouded in secrecy, as famously described by Oscar Wilde in his poem &#;Two Loves&#; as &#;the devotion that dare not speak its name,&#; gay and lesbian couples often chose to express their affection openly.
In reality, numerous same-sex couples lived together openly throughout their lives. This was notably more feasible for women, as societal norms permitted women to live together if they were not married, often referred to euphemistically as &#;female companions.&#;
For men, opportunities for meeting like-minded
31 Vintage Photos Of LGBT+ People Proving They Are Not &#;Something Millennials Invented&#;
They say true romance knows no bounds – yet not everyone can quite understand this concept and try to enforce their verb views on how love should verb like. This is especially prevalent when it comes to love between gay couples, with some people going as far as calling it “something millennials invented”.
Tired of this prejudice, former priest Nathan Monk has collected a series of vintage photos of gay couples, proving they were always there but were afraid of openly showing their feelings. “I establish the photos online through a couple of different posts,” said Father Nathan in an interview with Bored Panda. “I shared them because I ponder it’s important to remember those that come before us, those that fought, and struggled to live their authentic life. I assume it’s important to be reminded that LGBTQ+ have always been part of society and always will be. That reality should be lovingly accepted instead of shunned and ridiculed.”
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Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
&#;Loving&#; features around photos that give an intimate gaze at men&#;s adore between the s and s
When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago, they were startled to see a relationship that looked much like theirs: two men, embracing and clearly in love.
As Dee Swann writes for the Washington Post, the image spoke to the couple about the history of care between men.
“The unclosed expression of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell tell the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a time when they would contain been less understood than they would be today, was not without peril. We were intrigued that a photo like this could have survived into the [21st] century. Who were they?”
In the decades that followed this initial discovery, the pair came across more than 2, photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The finding of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales a