#20th century gay

[cozylittleartblog]

i now understand how certain people felt when harpy eda was revealed 😳

prints here

[daguerreotyping]

Real photo postcard of a strongman redefining "power bottom," c. 1910

[mrmousetolliver]

Vaslav Nijinsky (1889/1890-1950) He is considered to be the best male dancer of the early 20th century.

[gellertalbus]

[vitzoki]

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A GOOD BOOK CLUB!!

[tygerland]

Marsden Hartley (Portrait of) Adelard, the Drowned Master of the "Phantom." 1939. Oil on board: 71 × 56 cm (28 × 22 in).

[lordofdestructionm]

Coincidence?

Honestly probably yes but its funny to imagine him unknowingly sending out certain signals XD

[renaultphile]

Imre: A Memorandum

I just wanted to shout about this novel by US author Edward Prime-Stevenson, but I'm not sure even where to begin. Thank you to @eclare1000 for recommending it to me.

It was published in 1906, and is frank in its discussion of same-sex attraction between men. But for me it has become more than just a literary/historical curiosity - the book is a fascinating insight into the times, written more like a detective novel than a romance - it is Austen-esque in its dissection of the many and various social niceties that needed to be navigated, and yet (or maybe because).......also rather romantic!

If you know this book, I would love it if you re-blogged and shared your thoughts 💖

It is free on Project Gutenberg

And also, don't forget to take a look at the only fic in the Imre fandom!!! So beautifully done by @black-bentley

[thepaintedroom]

Walter Gay (American/France, 1856-1937) • 1905 • The Camode • Art Institute of Chicago

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

Various art by Sascha Schneider for Karl May's works, 1903.

[dailyhistoryposts]

Kissing Doesn't Kill: Greed and Indifference Do (1989) by art collective Gran Fury. Poster on the side of a bus.

[libraryofbaxobab]

April 5, 2024:

I... hesitate to call this horror. It's more like tense historical fiction that suddenly veers into fantasy territory. This certainly does not merit the title or cover art, which imply this should be about 17th-century witches, instead of a 1920s nurse fighting for the right to wear pants. I don't know. I liked it for sure, I just wouldn't say it evokes the feelings I associate with horror. Maybe that means I'm desensitized.

The conflict is mostly transphobes vs healthcare, and while that's horrifying in real life, it's also pretty mundane. This is for fans of Upright Women Wanted (Sarah Gailey) with an added power fantasy attached, and a main character who occupies the same gender-space as Alex Easton in the Sworn Soldier series (T. Kingfisher).

You could absolutely market this as a dark paranormal T4T romance. I liked seeing sexual tension between two trans men! I don't usually get that, and they switch who is bottom so that's cool. And the rumors are true: Monsterfucking.

7/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[daguerreotyping]

Detail from vintage photograph of an affectionate couple on the beach, one man sitting in the other's lap, their arms wrapped around each other, their cigar tips almost touching

[tortoisetrainer]

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey (1994)

[tanadrin]

dysphoria is a kind of neurosis so what are you even talking about?

dysphoria and neurosis are, as far as i can tell, entirely unrelated concepts. neurosis is repressed anxiety. in the casual/metaphorical/pejorative usage i was employing, it's often used to describe anything people are weirdly anxious or obsessive about, especially if they refuse to acknowledge that they're behaving weirdly.

dysphoria is simply the opposite of euphoria; it's an extremely generic concept, which is why as a symptom things described as "dysphoria" show up in the description of everything from dissociative disorders to depression to stress to feeling sad when you lactate. "gender dysphoria" (which i assume is what you meant specifically?) is just a fancy medical way of saying you feel bad about your gender, because in order to access certain kinds of medical interventions in our society we have to medicalize internal states in a way that makes them legible to preexisting bureaucracies. that could include repressed anxiety, but most people who have gender dysphoria are pretty intensely aware of their gender dysphoria. so neurosis is a pretty terrible model for describing what it's like if you want to understand it.

[tygerland]

Jean Cocteau at home in Milly-la-Fôret, France. Photo, 1955, by David Wharry.