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... or anywhere else for that matter, a link (or links) to specifically gay-themed content which I had stumbled upon; but here goes in the true spirit of "Boxing Day", from my house to yours, I give to all here my gift of sight and sound:
But firstly, a bit of preamble if I may. This past week has found me adding another terabyte of storage to my server; with this comes the usual housekeeping chores we all loathe, but find necessary if things are to keep right on humming along. In my moving (and sorting and recompiling) my audio files (which number in the neighbourhood of some 40,000 tunes) from one hard-drive to another, I uncovered two absolutely delightful 'slide-show' presentations I had truly forgotten that I had. Moreover I couldn't recall from where I had sampled them; but, knew instantly that I dearly wanted to share them with everyone here; hence my thread this morning after several hours of searching the web until I located their original source.
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1) Affectionate Men [Parts I and II]
A veritable smörgåsbord for your eyes and ears:
http://www.musicmisfit.com/affectionatemen/
I have no idea who the "Music Misfit" is, nor does the web-site really enlighten us much; but, he features many more amazing vignettes for your consideration. Interestingly enough, the link to "Affectionate Men" appears to be a blind-link, with reference being made to it, neither on the parent site's menu, nor that of either of his companion web-sites.
Jimmy Rogers' 1958 tune "Secretly", featured in the first vignette could very well bring new definition to the expression "Don't ask, don't tell" considering he made the recording whilst being enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces at the time. Sort of ironic that one!
Slim Whitman's 1954 recording of "Secret Love", featured in the second vignette likely has some sort of irony associated with it; but, I'm not privy to it, nor is any mention made anywhere I've been able to find a reference to the tune.
Copyright to 'linked' featured content remains the property of their respective owners.
One, or the other, of the foregoing vignettes were excerpted (in part) from
"Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples, 1850-1950", Edited by Russell Bush, Designed by Ron Lieberman
St. Martin's Griffin, May 2002
ISBN: 978-0-312-24285-5, ISBN10: 0-312-24285-9,
8 x 7 inches, 112 pages, Includes color photos throughout,
Unlike the second 'slide-show' linked therein above, I could find no suitable perma-link to actual content from the book in question, other than the publisher's own web-site:
http://us.macmillan.com/affectionatemen
-and -
"Dear Friends: American Photographs Of Men Together, 1840-1918"
An exhibition at the International Center of Photography, New York, 2001, where upon you'll find selected excerpts from the exhibition catalogue.
http://museum.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/dear_friends/
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The men in the photographs featured in the two vignettes, and through the exhibition catalogue above, were "real" people, not characters we see portrayed on the screen of our local cinèma or home television, nor are they the stuff that stories are made of and written about, each with their own hopes and aspirations - dreams if you will, family, futures largely before them. Sadly we'll not likely ever know if all or any of those dreams were ever realized; although understanding more about own my being 'gay', as I've shared from time-to-time through vignettes taken from my own life, they deserved to be.
I feel both vignettes are in the spirit of the mission declared by A Place Of Safety, and for this reason I share them, and feel they may be of some value, especially to our younger visitors.
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2) In attempting to locate the source link to the foregoing, I again, entirely through happenstance, fell upon this, the parent web-site for the White Crane Project and Foundation, and feel this, too, is worthy of a peek; in fact, you'll likely spend weeks thumbing through the archives of one or another of their interconnected group of companion operations, from the magazine itself, through to and including their blog; I know have in the past, and will once more:
http://www.gaywisdom.org/
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Timmy, if I may suggest it, you might consider making the last of the 'links', a perma-link of your own somewhere on your parent web-site resources page.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
[Updated on: Sat, 26 December 2009 17:21]
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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