Some can be wonderfully freeing and some can be terribly restrictive but, whatever the case, places make us.
— #DiarmuidHester, 2023 Nothing Ever Just Disappears. Seven Hidden Histories
#heretikread
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And if gay marriage is many things, one of those things is real estate speculation: the utopia of a perfectly moral form of life on the condition that it also be a safe, secure, “gated” form of life,
— #KevinFloyd, 2015
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« Parce que c'était lui ; parce que c'était moi. »
— #MicheldeMontaigne à son ami #ÉtiennedeLaBoétie. 1580
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The bridge was a huge sentence diagram
You and I the compound subject, moving
Toward the verb.
— #AlfredCorn, The Bridge, Palm Sunday, 1973 / All Roads at Once (1976)
*img 1939 #EdwardFCasey Stevedores Bathing Under Brooklyn Bridge #WhenBrooklynWasQueer
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J’ai toujours nourri une sainte horreur pour le pervers, le cynique, le provocant en matière sexuelle.
— #DanielGuérin, 1983 Homosexualité & révolution (une approche objective)
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*img 1940s #ThomasPainter and friends at the NYC apartment he shared with #EdwardMelcarth (who probably took the photograph) + 1950-60s #EdwardMelcarth, Hustler with tattoos (colour) + 1953 #ThomasPainter, Hustler + *txt—#BarryReay, 2019 SitA
: their homosexualities cannot be constrained under the label ‘gay’. Their heterosexualities are not straight.
*img 1940s #ThomasPainter & friends at the NY apartment he shared with #EdwardMelcarth (who probably took the photograph). Both were #AlfredKinsey informants
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*img 1930s #ElisàrvonKupffer & Sanctuarium Artis Elisarion in Minusio. Monte Verità. CH
: la poesi, la creació, la invenció, la fabricació del mite col·lectiu per als homes gais blancs, afegeix molts ingredients nocius i violents al pastís de les identitats sexuals d'avui.
— #BenMiller, 2024 intv. on #ElisàrvonKupffer
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*img 1865 #WaltWhitman & #PeteDoyle + late 1890s #EdwardPerryWarren & #JohnMarshall + 1910s #BessieMarbury & #ElsiedeWolfe + 1935 #GertrudeStein & #AliceBToklas + n.d. #TennesseeWilliams & #FrankMerlo + 1950s #JamesBaldwin & #LucienHappersberger + 1954 #RobertRauschenberg & #JasperJohns + 1975 #JamesIvory & #IsmailMerchant + 1981 #FrancesClayton & #AudreLorde
The couples were social insurgents. That is, each pair defied the social order by creating sub-rosa same-sex marriages long before such relationships were legally sanctioned.
— #RodgerStreitmatter, 2012 Outlaw Marriages
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*img Binary or Double Stars * 1880s Unknown, Affectionate Two Men Seated, One in the Other's Lap, with Their Hands in Suggestive Positions, met
The cave walls were slimy and covered with graffiti, big pictures of big cocks and big words, I began to see the connection. The attraction, the allure, of a language.
— #KevinKillian, 1989 Bedrooms Have Windows
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#homoheretik
JOSEP: . . . Tu ets més que un home per mí! Ets més que dos homes. Més que... Torna'm a abraçar amic Anton!
ANTON: No em transtornis els sentiments,
— #SantiagoRusiñol, 1905 El bon policia
*img c 1855 #JacobByerly Portrait of Two Seated Men, getty
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*img May 1972 James Baldwin’s working in his study in his home, Chez Baldwin, in St. Paul de Vence, France (nmaahc)
There are no clear vistas: the road that seems to pull one forward into the future is also pulling one backward into the past.
— #JamesBaldwin, 1972 NNitS
*img May 1972 James Baldwin’s working in his study in his home, Chez Baldwin, in St. Paul de Vence, France (nmaahc)
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