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31 Vintage Photos Of LGBT+ People Proving They Are Not “Something Millennials Invented”
They say true like knows no bounds – yet not everyone can quite understand this framework and try to enforce their hold views on how love should see like. This is especially prevalent when it comes to love between male lover 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 believe it’s important to remember those that come before us, those that fought, and struggled to live their legitimate life. I trust 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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As you can see, I’m mixing things up a bit with this week’s Vintage Gay post. I track an art blog (you can see it in my blogroll) called ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon and the artwork of this Japanese artist caught my attention. In the images above and below I notice gay men from the 1980s. Their clothing, preppy haircuts, and cleancut look scream 1980s to me.
Ben Kimura (木村べん) b. 1947 – d. 2003 was a Japanese gay erotic artist who along with George Takeuchi and Sadao Hasegawa, is noted as a core figure in the second wave of contemporary gay artists that emerged in Japan in the 1970s.
You can learn more about this artist and observe some more of his operate here.
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The Photography of Montague Glover
Born in May of 1898 in Leamington Spa, a spa town acknowledged for its medicinal waters, Montague Charles Glover was a British freelance architect and private photographer. He is foremost known for his photographs depicting lesbian life in London during the soon and mid-twentieth century when homosexuality was illegal. The majority of his oeuvre, shot during a period of increasing persecutions against homosexuals, documented members of the military forces and the operational class, whose social class divisions are depicted through their dress.
The youngest of five siblings and the only male child, Montague Glover entered the British Army in 1916 for service in the first Nature War. He was a member of the Artist Rifles Regiment, a regiment of the Territorial Force which saw active service during the war. Glover was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1917 and was awarded the Military Cross for Bravery in 1918.
Glover is notable for his photographs depicting the partnership with his long-time lover, Ralph Edward Hall, who was born in December of 1913 in Bermondsey, a district in the South End of London. Hall was one of nine child
“The only queer people are those who don’t desire anybody”
– Rita Mae Brown
Photo strip: Circa 1900,
Gay value is love. Gay sex is love. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950 we see men loving men in various ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, glass negatives, tintypes, cabinet cards, photo postcards, photo strips, photomatics and snapshots. Pictures of love should raise a smile. But when love is outlawed, these images show us how far we’ve reach and in many places still have to move. Life is hard. To live a secret experience when love between consenting adults is banned and censured by people sure they know better chance making the difficult unbearable.
“Our collection began when we came across an aged photo that we mind was one of a kind. The subjects in that vintage photo were two young men, embracing and gazing at one another – clearly in love. We looked at that photo, and it reflected us back to ourselves. We were intrigued that a photo fond of that could have survived into the 21st century. Who were they? And how did their snapshot end up at an antique shop in Dallas, Texas?
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