The 1879 drawing La Blanchisseuse by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret is considered the earliest example of Western art to portray a gay male couple. The piece is presently held in a private collection.
Images of dance. Die Schönheit, 1926
Vincenzo Galdi
André Ostier (1906-1994)
The Paths of Strength and Beauty (Der Wege zu kräft und schönheit) 1925. By Wilhelm PRAGER and Nicholas Kaufmann. The most representative and best-known film of the Weimar Kulturfilm genre. Silent documentary on the cult of the body. Several scenes were cut by the censors.
Raoul Haussmann (1886-1971). Self-portraits in 1928, 1931, and 1938 in Ibiza
André Ostier (1906-1994). Michel at rest. The photograph is a silver print, signed and dated 1942
Wilhelm Von Gloeden (1856-1931)
William Claxton (1927-2008). Steeve Mac Queen
Jean Louis Gaillemin (1944)
Les amants de Sidi Bou Saïd. Anonymous, c. 1945
This is a concentration camp. Call it what it is.
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These evangelicals adhere more closely to the Old Testament than the New. Since the Gospels establish a new covenant with humanity, they supersede the old one.
Black and white photo of Marjane Satrapi with the quote: "The world is not divided between East and West. You are American. I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."
Once again.
Russian Bathhouse, 1910
Harry Benjamin with Magnus Hirschfeld in New York (KILSC photo collection KIDC60151).
“A male prostitute.” Hirschfeld’s illustrated volume to Die Transvestiten, 1912. The captions in the image read: “A male prostitute. a) As she duped the Parisian men over years. b) As she was discovered upon her arrest.”
“Prize question: ??Man or woman??” Die Insel, 2, 1927.
“Male transvestite with pronounced female bodily forms; note especially the beginnings of a breast.” Das 3. Geschlecht 3 (1931): 10.
John O. in Magnus Hirschfeld’s illustrated volume to Die Transvestiten, 1912. The captions in the image read: “Figure 1: As a young newspaper boy; Figure 2: In nudo; Figure 3: As a naked transvestite; Figure 4: In his female outfit.”
David Rollins by F.W. Murnau
Nude man walking. This is plate 5, captioned "Walking".; CITE AS "Eadweard Muybridge. Animal locomotion: an electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movements, 1872-1885.
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Sailors (1934)
Charles Caskey (1936)
