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Behind the Aegis

(56,216 posts) Thu Mar 23, 2023, 03:16 PM Mar 2023

Antique photos chronicle gay male relationships from over 100 years ago in new documentary

Long resigned to living our lives in secret, behind closed doors, the extent of LGBTQ+ history that is untold and undocumented is unfathomable.

But thanks to projects like the documentary 100 Years Of Men In Love: The Accidental Collection, some of those stories are coming to light, photograph by photograph.

Inspired by a book of the same name, 100 Years Of Men In Love gives audiences a closer look at photography archives of married couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a selection of found portraits of men from the 1850s to the 1950s.

During that time, male partnerships were often deemed illegal, so the images of (assumed) gay men together—loving, laughing, cuddling, smiling—feels especially radical.

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Antique photos chronicle gay male relationships from over 100 years ago in new documentary (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 OP

K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t RKP5637 Mar 2023 #1

i remember seeing a yt channel that had photos like this and the homophbia got to AllaN01Bear Mar 2023 #2

RKP5637

(67,112 posts)

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

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Thu Mar 23, 2023, 03:20 PM

Mar 2023

AllaN01Bear

(29,805 posts)

2. i remember seeing a yt channel that had photos like this and the homophbia got to

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Thu Mar 23, 2023, 03:22 PM

Mar 2023

him and the owner had to take his channel down. shame . i loved the humanity.

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