All art is quite useless.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

[joeinct]

Untitled, Photo by Rudolf Koppitz

[hellostranger1961]

shunga (erotic japanese woodblock art) printed during the russo-japanese war, 1905

[fonthillsplendens]

Le Cyclist. Astride Maillol.

[fonthillsplendens]

Gaston Colin.

[mrmousetolliver]

I am out therefore I am (1989) by Adam Rolston.

[mrmousetolliver]

The New Yorker June 17, 1996

[mrmousetolliver]

Bronski Beat (c.1984) One of the, if not the, first out Gay rock group to get a major record deal. The group consisted of Jimmy Somerville (vocals), Steve Bronski (keyboards, percussion) and Larry Steinbachek (keyboards, percussion). While this version of the group only lasted two years before Somerville left for a solo career, their album Age of Consent helped define not only gay culture but the 80's overall.

[mrmousetolliver]

Embrace (1952) photographed by George Platt Lynes

[mrmousetolliver]

Daniel on Pier 48 (1978) photographed by Leonard Fink Leonard Fink (1930-1992) was an American photographer who documented his own LGBT culture in New York City from 1967 to 1992.He photographed the annual Pride Marches beginning with the first in 1970; the West Village's gay bar culture; and in particular the abandoned West Side piers where men cruised and had sexual encounters.

He neither published nor exhibited his work in his lifetime, but posthumously exhibitions have been held in the Schwules Museum in Berlin and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City. A book, Leonard Fink: Coming Out, was published on the occasion of the latter exhibition. His work is held in the archive of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City. (Source: Wikipedia)

[mrmousetolliver]

Brooklyn Boys, New York (early 1960s) photographed by Danny Fitzgerald and Les Demi Dieux

[joeinct]

Kentucky, Photo by William Gedney, 1972

[armchairmusings]

Photographer: William Gedney (Wikipedia) Summer of Love, 1967

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

William Gale Gedney foi um documentarista e fotógrafo de rua americano. Não foi até depois de sua morte que seu trabalho ganhou força e agora é amplamente reconhecido. Ele é mais conhecido por suas séries na zona rural de Kentucky e séries sobre a Índia, São Francisco e Nova York filmadas nas décadas de 1960 e 1970.

[colonellickburger]

William Gedney. Kentucky, 1972

[colonellickburger]

William Gedney. Kentucky, 1972

[chantssecrets]

📸 by William Gedney

[chantssecrets]

📸 by William Gedney

[imperfectdiary]

Cornett family, Leatherwood, Kentucky, 1972

Photography by William Gedney