I dedicate this weekly post, featuring vintage gay photographs, to the men and women who lived in a more critical time where being true to yourself and loving who you want wasn’t always an option and came at a great price. Certainly it would have been more comfortable standing on either side or behind the man in the middle. Men in the past were often photographed close together and touching, but the photo strikes me as more intimate with each man interlacing his hands and sharing a seat so that the men on either side are half seated on the arm of the chair and half curled around each leg of the man in the middle.
Are you able to glean anything from the clothing or hair style that might pinpoint a date or location when these three were photographed?
I can’t tell much about this photo other than that Harvey (on the left) was eighteen years old when the picture was taken. This photo was posted on the Twitter account and I swiped it for this weekly blog post.
