#gay photography book

[k-wame]

best summary of this film ive ever read

[exquisitecorps3]

"The Butch Manual" by Clark Henley

Sitting positions

[raiquen]

"I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you."

~ Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This is How You Lose the Time War

[that-butch-archivist]

"Ruth Ellis, Golden Threads Celebration 1995," from the documentary Golden Threads

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[itboytrends]

Lil Nas X & Luke Gezelle by Edwig Henson

[waspst1ngs]

Victor Arimondi, Macho Man, 1981

[mrmousetolliver]

Sex (1992) by Madonna with photography by Steven Meisel Studio and Fabien Baron. Released on October 21st, 1992 Sex sold 150,000 copies in the US on it's first day. In less than a week it sold 1.5 million copies worldwide and remains the best and fastest-selling coffee table book. It also remains as one of the most in-demand out-of-print publications of all time.

[darklingvd]

Comfy reading.

This awesome photograph was on my darklingdv blog that was removed by Tumblr (May 25th, 2024). It had over 5000 likes and many reblogs. I post it again because with that blog of course also this photograph evaporated.

[marktheshark0]

Nico di Angelo 🪦⚖️🗡💀🐈‍⬛🕸🍂

[daguerreotyping]

Daguerreotype of two men, affectionately entwined, circa 1845-50. Source: Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 by David Deitcher. This book is also available to read for free on Open Library, though the scan quality is a little rough. I've just acquired a used copy and it's so worth it, not only for the many lovely reproductions but also for Deitcher's writing, which is beautiful and I imagine very relevant to the interests of many viewers of this tumblr:

Anonymity, and the uncertainty it perpetuates, facilitate a kind of pleasure that would be more difficult to sustain under the potentially harsh, and always more limiting, details of a more concrete historical intelligence. Research into the gay history of nineteenth-century London prompted one writer to ask: "Do we view it with dismay, since it is a record of sorrow, of powerlessness, a record of lives wrecked? Or is it possible to read even these texts, written as they were by journalists, policemen and court clerks, with delight, as precious traces of dangerous, pleasurable, complicated gay lives?" Uncertain of anything that actually transpired between the men in such a photograph, the collector is free to imagine whatever he pleases. Immersed in their appearance, he remains ignorant of any tragedy that might have befallen them, or of any crime they may have committed or been punished for.

[unapologeticallygay]

More fats, more fems

Toronto Pride Parade, June 24th, 2018, photo by me

[alostangel]

[itboytrends]

Kit Connor photographed by Kolby Knight for Esquire Singapore.

Kit Connor photographed by Kolby Knight for Esquire Singapore.

[abustoslife]

[getted]

[anitatapio]

One of the main characters from my upcoming dystopian fantasy novel.