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Friday, March 12, 2021


This double duo by Barrington shows John Hamill, at left, with an unknown model.
I don't know if someone up the line "cleaned up" this image, but the quality is quite good.
Hamill later complained that his prolific nude modeling hurt a promising movie career.

 

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  1. I have heard tell that it was John Hamill's mother, no less, who drove him at the age of 15 herself to John Barrington for a photo shoot, in order to promote his bodybuilding career. No mother could surely have been as innocent as that...

    John Hamill went on to have a reasonably successful acting career on both big and small screen, and then retired from acting in 1989 to run a pine furniture business. He is alive and kicking at the age of 73.

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    1. All true. I think his reference to the nude modeling hurting his career was in relation to not having become a major star. Having said that, when I first came across his name and image while collecting old photos, I recognized the name and immediately checked to see if it was the same guy.

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    2. It is worth remembering that male homosexuality was illegal in Britain until 1967 (and then only for over 21s) and John was 17 when many of these pictures were taken in 1964. If the earlier pictures were taken in 1962, it is highly likely that he DID wear a jock or posing strap for the early sessions. To use today's overused word perhaps he was being groomed, for the later duo photos?. A year later, in 1965/6 he appeared in the British ATV daily serial "Crossroads", so almost certainly if John was, as I have always suspected, bisexual, it might have ended his career before it really started (prior to Crossroads he had made only a one off appearance on a long forgotten series called "Redcap" (about the British military police) so if John Barrington convinced the other John's mum that he was straight, she might well have been naive enough to believe it. The wife and children would "prove" he wasn't gay - remember that line in the Dirk Bogarde film "Victim" (1961, directed by Basil Deardon when a detective tells his superior 'but Mr. Farr is married sir" and his superior replies 'they are famous last words'In the swinging 60s, it was generally believed that if you were gay (a word not in use, even in London - the "Q" word was used) you were either a pervert, at worst, mentally ill at best. The latter was my parents verdict. Bisexuality was regarded as an even greater perversion.I doubt also he told her it was nude modelling as some of John's photos had him in a posing strap. It was in 1967 that I really became aware of being gay because John Hamill and Barry Evans (1943-1997) were the two men who made me wake up to the beauty I found in ordinary men. I don't think Barry Evans ever did nude modelling work (though he appeared naked in two films "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush" (1967) and "Confessions of a Taxi Driver" (1975) - Barry was also bisexual but a very unhappy man.He was an ex-Barnardos boy having been abandoned by his mother as a baby. Always a loner, he died alone in mysterious circumstances having left acting and becoming a minicab driver (ironic when you consider the "Confessions" film). It seems highly likely he was murdered by a 17 year old boy. He still looked a beautiful man at 53, despite years of heavy drinking. Homosexuality in the 1960s has always been a mystery to me. The number of "happily married" men who I met at swimming pools in the late 60s and early 70s, who just went gay on Saturday mornings. Talking os TV actors there are a few who hide their sexuality to this day for professional reasons - no excuse now, so I don't know why they go through the farce...... Graham.

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    3. Mostly there was the understanding that guys sometimes jerked off together (usually when young), and a significant minority (like, still less than 1%) of guys (basically if you were old enough to drive) clandestinely got sucked in exchange for money though no one would openly acknowledge any of this, hence rough trade today.

      Rural areas were actually more accepting of homosexuality in those days, though again, the key here is that it was still very hush-hush: It just meant this didn't define you. (And nobody ever spoke of such things to women!)

      (If anyone is surprised by this, remember witch hunts were practically nonexistent in the Middle Ages; everyone knew magic wasn't real. But during the Protestant Reformation, suddenly you have witches everywhere.)

      Note that exclusive homosexuality, bottoming, and transgender behavior were generally seen as mental problems, even by otherwise accepting individuals. Even fellow queers saw anal sex as a huge taboo in the 60s.

      Among gays, bisexuality would become taboo in the 70s and 80s.

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  2. Lovely looking man, wish we knew the other guy with whom he is clearly enjoying a bit of a manly embrace. Hamill ticks so many boxes for me. A most influential type when I was developing my "likes". I didn't see him nude until the advent of the internet!

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  3. I like how he has a semi. It feels so genuine.

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    1. Doesn't it..two naked guys fooling around, letting what happens naturally...happen.

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  4. Sur la photo de gauche, les deux modeles ont l'air confortables heureux et satisfaits . Le photo de droite, le phallus de Hamill est excite par la situation et l'autre modele est amuse pour lui-meme et embarrasse pour eux deux.
    Une image si charmante et douce. Ils se sont regales.


    Gentilhomme a Paris

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