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I couldn't agree more. However, that's not how this particular picture is represented in that book whose subtitle is Men in Love, which means a specific thing. To quote from the hyperbolic introduction; Beyond their message of love, they seem to be calling out, saying, 'We mattered to one another and we wanted to memorialize out love through a photograph. Even if only for ourselves'. Given the clearly jokey intent of this particular studio photograph - nothing secret or hidden about that process - unless they have actual proof it seems preposterous, and disingenuous, to suggest that it records anything other than a close friendship, or perhaps what is more likely, kinship. If you like the book, that's great, I won't quarrel with you if it touched you. I found it to be naive and self-fulfilling. Some of the pictures certainly do support the claim of 'men in love' and they are often touching, making a contemporary viewer want to reach back in time to offer encouragement. But, to my eye at least, what the pictures more often record aren't records of 'men in love' but friendships or kinships often expressed in a frankly physical manner often in public, where secret love was kept hidden. I know that because I lived through part of it, and also because I've been involved for some years in a trying to reconstruct some of those lives, and recover how we lived then. These are some pictures from the internet: loving? in love? Best wishes.2 stiffies
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I just love the book you are talking about: of course most of the pictures in it were not taken with an exclusively gay intent. But the ambiguity of the images and the fluidity of the love and friendship – and maybe even more – just speaks to you from the pages. Man-to-man love isn't (and never has been) as bipolar or exclusive as straight or gay. There is a lot in between, and that is what this picture celebrates: why so reductive? you don't know how they felt about each other, and that they saw the ambiguity in their sign, and loved it. https://www.fivecontinentseditions.com/en/p/loving/1 stiffie
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