Gay couple pictures
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 universal 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 noun 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 noun that dare not speak its name,” gay and lesbian couples often chose to express their affection openly.
In truth, 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.”
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100 Years of Photographs of Gay Men in Love
Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries provide a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
A beautiful group of photographs that spans a century (1850–1950) is part of a novel book that offers a visual glimpse of what life may have been like for those men, who went against the law to find cherish in one another’s arms. In Loving: A Photographic History of Men in Love 1850s–1950s, hundreds of images explain the story of love and affection between men, with some clearly in love and others hinting at more than just friendship. The collection belongs to Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who has accumulated over 2,800 photographs of “men in love” during the course of two decades. While the majority of the images hail from the United States and are of predominantly white men, there are images from Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, and the United Kingdom among the cache.
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Romantic Pictures Of Gay Couples Around The Globe Challenge Common Representation Of LGBT Community
“When thinking of iconic romance, verb yourself if any imagery (paintings, photographs, film-stills) comes to mind that is not showing heterosexual couples? Probably not,” points out Summers, who identifies himself as gay.
“A massive driving force behind creating this series was actually less about affecting the gay community directly, and more about giving the general population a way to relate to gay imagery which is devoid of sex, victimization, or banality – themes that might usually prevent some folks from connecting,” writes Summers. “The photographs are not documentations, they are dreamy illustrations of what open expressions of love in alternative cultures *could* watch like in the future, more accepting time.”
Ethnically appropriate models were used in most of the cases only to assure the security of real LGBTQ members. Summers is eager to carry on the project, travelling around the globe to expand our understanding of the beauty
Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
“Loving” features around 300 photos that offer an intimate look at men’s love between the 1850s and 1950s
When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a 1920s-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 love between men.
“The open expression of the love that they shared also revealed a moment of determination,” Nini and Treadwell explain the Post. “Taking such a photo, during a day when they would have been less understood than they would be today, was not without risk. 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 2,800 photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea