Showing posts with label Gay History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gay History. Show all posts
Thursday, September 3, 2026

Gay Ads Day

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Today I'm featuring some gay ads over the decades, starting with this one for the Club Baths'  Buddy Day.  If you didn't arrive ...
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Remodelers

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Remodelers Burrill and Robin used a Calafran photo to promote their business. I wonder if anyone insisted that they work nude as advertised?...
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Thursday, August 27, 2026

Sage Sohier

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For a moment I thought the man at right might be Tennessee Williams, but the photo is from a documentary series on same sex couples by Sage ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Eros Unbound

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This montage was put together by artist Carl Morse after Gerhardt Liebmann's death from AIDS in 1989 at age 61.  It is composed of photo...
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Saturday, July 11, 2026

Gold Coast

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Here we have some 1970s men outside Chicago's Gold Coast bar.  
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Sunday, May 31, 2026

6 May 1933 - Why we have so few issues of Der Eigene

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This was taken in the offices of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish researcher and sexologist,  on May 6, 1933.  Alarmed by the rise of nazism,...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

1978

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This 1978 photo is part of the Fire Island Pines Historical Collection.  
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Thursday, December 19, 2024

First NYC Gay Pride

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And of course Arthur Tress was there with his camera at the very first New York City Gay Pride celebration.  
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Ernst Hildebrand

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This is Article 175 by German artist Ernst Hildebrand, ca 1950.  The title refers  to the part of the German criminal code which prohibited ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Musketeers

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These Musketeers attended a Castro Street Halloween event in the late 1970s.  
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Men in Uniform

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This is another 1970s San Francisco Halloween celebration. A Boy Scout and a sailor have fallen in lust.  
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Saturday, October 12, 2024

Roger Pegram and Frank Bushong

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Way back in June, I posted a Gay Pride series that included a Thanksgiving dinner scene at the home of Rober Pegram and Frank Bushong.  That...

Nantucket, August 1955

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We have quite a few photos of Roger and Frank on beach vacations. This one is Brant Point, Nantucket in August of 1955.  

Intriguing caption

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This photo is one that I find quite intriguing.  My source listed the men as (l-r) "Member," Roger Pegram, and Bill Happ at Andove...
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Frank and Fred

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Here we see Frank with Fred Brahms (right), a close friend of the couple. No date or location was given, but they're having a good time....

1949 Fixer-upper

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Although my source did not give the location, I like to think that like many young couples, Frank and Roger bought a fixer-upper as their fi...

Provincetown

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Provincetown was already a gay mecca when Roger was  photographed there at Race Point on August 28, 1953  

Kitchen

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It was January 29, 1956 when this kitchen conference took place at Frank and Roger's  Andover home.  Frank has his back to the camera wh...
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Professional

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The only photo listed as professionally taken in my collection of Roger Pegram and Frank Bushong images is this one of Frank presumably at a...
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Sense of Humor

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Never let it be said that these guys didn't have a sense of humor.  Frank took  this snapshot of Roger at the Burlington, Vermont city l...
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