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As you can spot , I&#;m mixing things up a bit with this week&#;s Vintage Gay upload. I follow an art blog (you can see it in my blogroll) called ultrawolvesunderthefullmoon and the artwork of this Japanese musician caught my attention. In the images above and below I see male lover men from the s. Their clothing, preppy haircuts, and cleancut look scream s to me.
Ben Kimura (木村べん) b. – d. was a Japanese gay erotic artist who along with George Takeuchi and Sadao Hasegawa, is noted as a central figure in the second wave of contemporary same-sex attracted artists that emerged in Japan in the s.
You can learn more about this musician and see some more of his work here.
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The Photography of Montague Glover
Born in May of in Leamington Spa, a spa town known for its medicinal waters, Montague Charles Glover was a British freelance architect and private photographer. He is best acknowledged for his photographs depicting homosexual life in London during the early 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 working class, whose social class divisions are depicted through their dress.
The youngest of five siblings and the only male youngster, Montague Glover entered the British Army in for service in the first World 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 and was awarded the Military Cross for Bravery in
Glover is notable for his photographs depicting the partnership with his long-time lover, Ralph Edward Hall, who was born in December of in Be
This article was originally published onVICE Italy.
Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell are Texan art collectors, who got “unofficially” married in In , the couple was finally officially able to tie the knot in Massachusetts, “the only place in the US where it was possible to get married”. To complete so, they not only had to get on a plane, but legally “set up residence in Boston, with an mention , utilities, phone service, and a bank account,” as then-Governor Mitt Romney had revived a forgotten rule from preventing Massachusetts from becoming, in his words, “the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage”.
At some signal between these two weddings, among a pile of vintage pictures at an antique store in Texas, Hugh and Neal establish an image that blew their minds: in front of a small s-style house “were two immature men, embracing and gazing at one another, clearly in love”. The photo dated back to when same-sex relationships were illegal not only in the States, but in most countries across the world.
The two collectors thought the photo must be one-of-a-kind, but soon after they found another in an online
Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men in Love
&#;Loving&#; features around photos that propose an intimate look at men&#;s love 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 love between men.
“The open 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 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, photos of men in love—at first accidentally and later on purpose. The result of their trips to flea markets, shops, estate sales a